NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2016
May 2020
Generation
GeForce 10
Tesla Ampere
Type
Desktop
AI GPU
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1095 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1410 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
40GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
256bit
5120bit
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
1555GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
15
108
Shading Units
1920
6912
TMUs
120
432
ROPs
64
160
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
40 MB
Tensor Cores
—
432
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
225.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
609.1 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
77.97 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
19.49 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
9.746 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
GA100
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
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Architecture
Pascal
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
7 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
400W
Suggested PSU
450 W
800 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
6.1
8.0
Shader Model
6.4
N/A
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
6,078
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
2,825
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GTA 5 2160p
48
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GTA 5 1440p
84
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GTA 5 1080p
148
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Blender
—
2,186
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.