NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

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NVIDIA A16 PCIe NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1695MHz vs 1440MHz)

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +137%

10.32 TFLOPS

Blender

A16 PCIe

510

A30 PCIe +299%

2036

A16 PCIe

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Apr 2021

Tesla

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

128bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

40

Tensor Cores

224

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA100

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

Unknown

Transistors

54.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

8.0

6.6

Shader Model

N/A

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