NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs NVIDIA A100 PCIe
AI GPU
We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and a GPU: 40GB VRAM A100 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1440MHz vs 1410MHz)
Lower TDP (165W vs 250W)
NVIDIA A100 PCIe 's Advantages
More VRAM (40GB vs 24GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1555GB/s vs 933.1GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A30 PCIe
10.32 TFLOPS
A100 PCIe
+88%
19.49 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Jun 2020
Tesla Ampere
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
AI GPU
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
930 MHz
Base Clock
765 MHz
1440 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
40GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
HBM2e
3072bit
Memory Bus
5120bit
933.1GB/s
Bandwidth
1555GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
56
SM Count
108
3584
Shading Units
6912
224
TMUs
432
96
ROPs
160
224
Tensor Cores
432
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-
-
192 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
24 MB
L2 Cache
40 MB
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-
-
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
Board Design
165W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GA100
GPU Name
GA100
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-
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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
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
N/A
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
