NVIDIA Tesla P40 vs NVIDIA GRID A100A

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM Tesla P40 and 48GB VRAM GRID A100A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Tesla P40 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1531MHz vs 1005MHz)

Lower TDP (250W vs 400W)

NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (48GB vs 24GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 347.1GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Tesla P40

11.76 TFLOPS

GRID A100A +18%

13.89 TFLOPS

Tesla P40

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GRID A100A

Graphics Card

Sep 2016

Release Date

May 2020

Tesla Pascal

Generation

GRID

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1303 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1005 MHz

1808 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

6144bit

347.1GB/s

Bandwidth

1866GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

108

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

6912

240

TMUs

432

96

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

432

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

147.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

193.0 GPixel/s

367.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

434.2 GTexel/s

183.7 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

55.57 TFLOPS

11.76 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.89 TFLOPS

367.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.947 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

GA100

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GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

400W

600 W

Suggested PSU

800 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

8.0

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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