NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 933.1GB/s)

6912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (165W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +244%

35.58 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

10496

Shading Units

3584

328

TMUs

224

112

ROPs

96

328

Tensor Cores

224

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA100

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

165W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

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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