NVIDIA A100 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA A100 PCIe NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AI GPU We compared a GPU: 40GB VRAM A100 PCIe and a Desktop platform GPU: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (40GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1555GB/s vs 912.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (250W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1710MHz vs 1410MHz)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A100 PCIe

19.49 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +57%

30.64 TFLOPS

A100 PCIe

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2020

Release Date

Jan 2022

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

AI GPU

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

765 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

40GB

Memory Size

12GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6X

5120bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1555GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

108

SM Count

70

-

Compute Units

-

6912

Shading Units

8960

432

TMUs

280

160

ROPs

96

432

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

40 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

225.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

609.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

77.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

19.49 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

9.746 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA102

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GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

350W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

8.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.6

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