NVIDIA GRID A100A vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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NVIDIA GRID A100A NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared a Professional market GPU: 48GB VRAM GRID A100A and a Desktop platform GPU: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages

More VRAM (48GB vs 10GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 760.3GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (1710MHz vs 1005MHz)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (320W vs 400W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID A100A

13.89 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +114%

29.77 TFLOPS

GRID A100A

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

May 2020

Release Date

Sep 2020

GRID

Generation

GeForce 30

Professional

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1005 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

10GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6X

6144bit

Memory Bus

320bit

1866GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

108

SM Count

68

-

Compute Units

-

6912

Shading Units

8704

432

TMUs

272

192

ROPs

96

432

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

68

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

193.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

434.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

55.57 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

13.89 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

6.947 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA102

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GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

400W

TDP

320W

800 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

8.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.6

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