NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2020
Jan 2021
Generation
Tesla Ampere
GeForce 30 Mobile
Type
AI GPU
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1095 MHz
780 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1245 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
40GB
8GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR6
Memory Bus
5120bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1555GB/s
384.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
48
Shading Units
6912
6144
TMUs
432
192
ROPs
160
96
Tensor Cores
432
192
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
40 MB
4 MB
RT Cores
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48
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
225.6 GPixel/s
119.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
609.1 GTexel/s
239.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
77.97 TFLOPS
15.30 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.49 TFLOPS
15.30 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
9.746 TFLOPS
239.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
GA104
Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
7 nm
8 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
392 mm²
GPU Variant
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GA104-775-A1
Board Design
TDP
400W
80W
Suggested PSU
800 W
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Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
8.0
8.6
Shader Model
N/A
6.6
Benchmark
Blender
2,186
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.