NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and a Professional market GPU: 80GB VRAM A100 PCIe 80 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 79% (2520MHz vs 1410MHz)

9472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB 's Advantages

More VRAM (80GB vs 24GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.94TB/s vs 1.01TB/s)

Lower TDP (300W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +323%

82.58 TFLOPS

A100 PCIe 80 GB

19.49 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +238%

12586

A100 PCIe 80 GB

3722

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4090 +310%

1274

A100 PCIe 80 GB

310

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

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NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jun 2021

GeForce 40

Generation

Tesla Ampere(Axx)

Desktop

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1512 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

80GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

1.94TB/s

Render Config

-

128

SM Count

108

16384

Shading Units

6912

512

TMUs

432

176

ROPs

160

512

Tensor Cores

432

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

80 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

225.6 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

609.1 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

77.97 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.49 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

9.746 TFLOPS

Board Design

450W

TDP

300W

850 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA100

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

7 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

8.0

6.8

Shader Model

N/A

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