NVIDIA B100 vs NVIDIA A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 96GB VRAM B100 and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA B100 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1837MHz vs 1770MHz)
More VRAM (96GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (4.10TB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
15616 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 1000W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
B100
+1270%
62.08 TFLOPS
A2
4.531 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2024
Release Date
Nov 2021
Server Blackwell
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1665 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1837 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
96GB
Memory Size
16GB
HBM3e
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
128bit
4.10TB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
132
SM Count
10
16896
Shading Units
1280
528
TMUs
40
24
ROPs
32
528
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
256 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
50 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
44.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
969.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
248.3 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
62.08 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
31.04 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
1000W
TDP
60W
1400 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GB102
GPU Name
GA107
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-
-
Blackwell
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
104 billion
Transistors
Unknown
Unknown
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
10.1
CUDA
8.6
N/A
Shader Model
6.6
