NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB

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We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and a Professional market GPU: 80GB VRAM A100 PCIe 80 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1440MHz vs 1410MHz)

Lower TDP (165W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB 's Advantages

More VRAM (80GB vs 24GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1935GB/s vs 933.1GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe

10.32 TFLOPS

A100 PCIe 80 GB +88%

19.49 TFLOPS

Blender

A30 PCIe

2036

A100 PCIe 80 GB +87%

3823

A30 PCIe

VS

A100 PCIe 80 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jun 2021

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1512 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

80GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

HBM2e

3072bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

1935GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

108

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

6912

224

TMUs

432

96

ROPs

160

224

Tensor Cores

432

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

80 MB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

225.6 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

609.1 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

77.97 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.49 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

9.746 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA100

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

7 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

N/A

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

8.0

N/A

Shader Model

N/A

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