NVIDIA GRID A100A vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive

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NVIDIA GRID A100A NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM GRID A100A and 48GB VRAM Quadro RTX 8000 Passive to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 672.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1620MHz vs 1005MHz)

Lower TDP (260W vs 400W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID A100A

13.89 TFLOPS

Quadro RTX 8000 Passive +7%

14.93 TFLOPS

GRID A100A

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Quadro RTX 8000 Passive

Graphics Card

May 2020

Release Date

Aug 2018

GRID

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1230 MHz

1005 MHz

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

48GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

6144bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1866GB/s

Bandwidth

672.0GB/s

Render Config

108

SM Count

72

-

Compute Units

-

6912

Shading Units

4608

432

TMUs

288

192

ROPs

96

432

Tensor Cores

576

-

RT Cores

72

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

193.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

155.5 GPixel/s

434.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

466.6 GTexel/s

55.57 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.86 TFLOPS

13.89 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.93 TFLOPS

6.947 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

466.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

TU102

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GPU Variant

TU102-875-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

12 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

18.6 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

754 mm²

Board Design

400W

TDP

260W

800 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

7.5

N/A

Shader Model

6.6

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