NVIDIA A100 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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NVIDIA A100 PCIe NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

AI GPU We compared a GPU: 40GB VRAM A100 PCIe and a Mobile platform GPU: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1410MHz vs 1282MHz)

More VRAM (40GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1555GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A100 PCIe +97%

19.49 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

9.846 TFLOPS

A100 PCIe

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jun 2020

Release Date

Jan 2021

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

AI GPU

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

765 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

40GB

Memory Size

6GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

5120bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1555GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

108

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

6912

Shading Units

3840

432

TMUs

120

160

ROPs

48

432

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

40 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

225.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

609.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

77.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

19.49 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

9.746 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA106

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

60W

600 W

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

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

8.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.6

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