NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2021
Jan 2013
Generation
Tesla Ampere(Axx)
Sea Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1065 MHz
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Boost Clock
1410 MHz
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Memory Clock
1512 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
80GB
2GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
5120bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1.94TB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
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Shading Units
6912
1280
TMUs
432
80
ROPs
160
32
Tensor Cores
432
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L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
80 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
225.6 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
609.1 GTexel/s
80.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
77.97 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
19.49 TFLOPS
2.560 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
9.746 TFLOPS
160.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
Pitcairn
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
212 mm²
GPU Variant
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Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
Board Design
TDP
300W
175W
Suggested PSU
700 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
8.0
—
Shader Model
N/A
5.1
Benchmark
OctaneBench
310
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Blender
3,722
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.