NVIDIA B100 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 96GB VRAM B100 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA B100 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1837MHz vs 1440MHz)
More VRAM (96GB vs 24GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (4.10TB/s vs 933.1GB/s)
13312 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages
Lower TDP (165W vs 1000W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
B100
+501%
62.08 TFLOPS
A30 PCIe
10.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2024
Release Date
Apr 2021
Server Blackwell
Generation
Tesla Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1665 MHz
Base Clock
930 MHz
1837 MHz
Boost Clock
1440 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
96GB
Memory Size
24GB
HBM3e
Memory Type
HBM2e
4096bit
Memory Bus
3072bit
4.10TB/s
Bandwidth
933.1GB/s
Render Config
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132
SM Count
56
16896
Shading Units
3584
528
TMUs
224
24
ROPs
96
528
Tensor Cores
224
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-
-
256 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
50 MB
L2 Cache
24 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
44.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.2 GPixel/s
969.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
322.6 GTexel/s
248.3 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.32 TFLOPS
62.08 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.32 TFLOPS
31.04 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
5.161 TFLOPS
Board Design
1000W
TDP
165W
1400 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GB102
GPU Name
GA100
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Blackwell
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
7 nm
104 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
Unknown
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
10.1
CUDA
8.0
N/A
Shader Model
N/A
