NVIDIA A100 PCIe vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

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NVIDIA A100 PCIe NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

AI GPU We compared a GPU: 40GB VRAM A100 PCIe and a Professional market GPU: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation 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 20GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1555GB/s vs 280.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1560MHz vs 1410MHz)

Lower TDP (70W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A100 PCIe +1%

19.49 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

19.17 TFLOPS

A100 PCIe

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RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jun 2020

Release Date

Mar 2023

Tesla

Generation

Quadro Ada

AI GPU

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

765 MHz

Base Clock

720 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

40GB

Memory Size

20GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

5120bit

Memory Bus

160bit

1555GB/s

Bandwidth

280.0GB/s

Render Config

108

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

6912

Shading Units

6144

432

TMUs

192

160

ROPs

80

432

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

40 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

225.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

124.8 GPixel/s

609.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

299.5 GTexel/s

77.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

19.17 TFLOPS

19.49 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.17 TFLOPS

9.746 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

299.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

AD104

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GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

5 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

70W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

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

8.9

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

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