NVIDIA GRID A100A vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM GRID A100A and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1005MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
6904 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 400W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID A100A
+63036%
13.89 TFLOPS
Quadro NVS 420
0.022 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2020
Release Date
Jan 2009
GRID
Generation
Quadro NVS
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
-
1005 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1215 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
256MB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR3
6144bit
Memory Bus
64bit
1866GB/s
Bandwidth
11.20GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
108
SM Count
1
6912
Shading Units
8
432
TMUs
4
192
ROPs
4
432
Tensor Cores
-
-
-
-
192 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
48 MB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
193.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
434.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.200 GTexel/s
55.57 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
13.89 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
22.40 GFLOPS
6.947 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
400W
TDP
40W
800 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x VHDCI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA100
GPU Name
G98
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
65 nm
54.2 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
826 mm²
Die Size
86 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
8.0
CUDA
1.1
N/A
Shader Model
4.0
