NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB

VS

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and 80GB VRAM A100 PCIe 80 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A6000's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1800MHz vs 1410MHz)

3840 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (80GB vs 48GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1935GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A6000 +98%

38.71 TFLOPS

A100 PCIe 80 GB

19.49 TFLOPS

Blender

RTX A6000 +45%

5549

A100 PCIe 80 GB

3823

OctaneBench

RTX A6000 +94%

602

A100 PCIe 80 GB

310

RTX A6000

VS

A100 PCIe 80 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jun 2021

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410MHz

Base Clock

1065MHz

1800MHz

Boost Clock

1410MHz

2000MHz

Memory Clock

1512MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

80GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

768.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

1935 GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

108

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

6912

336

TMUs

432

112

ROPs

160

336

Tensor Cores

432

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

6MB

L2 Cache

80MB

Theoretical Performance

201.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

225.6 GPixel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

609.1 GTexel/s

38.71 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

77.97 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.49 TFLOPS

604.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

9.746 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA100

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

28,300 million

Transistors

54,200 million

628mm²

Die Size

826mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

300W

700W

Suggested PSU

700W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

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

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

2

NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA L40

3

NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA L40S

4

NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

5

NVIDIA H100 PCIe vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

6

NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA A10 PCIe

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB

8

NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA Quadro CX

9

NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI

10

NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA Tesla C2090