NVIDIA GRID K2 vs NVIDIA GRID A100B

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NVIDIA GRID K2 NVIDIA GRID A100B

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K2 and 48GB VRAM GRID A100B to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 400W)

NVIDIA GRID A100B 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock1005MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID K2

2.289 TFLOPS

GRID A100B +506%

13.89 TFLOPS

GRID K2

VS

GRID A100B

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2020

GRID

Generation

GRID

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1005 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

6144bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1866GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

108

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

6912

128

TMUs

432

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

432

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

193.0 GPixel/s

95.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

434.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

55.57 TFLOPS

2.289 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.89 TFLOPS

95.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.947 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA100

GK104-895-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

400W

550 W

Suggested PSU

800 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.175

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

8.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

N/A

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