NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2025
May 2020
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
Tesla Ampere
Type
Desktop
AI GPU
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1740 MHz
1095 MHz
Boost Clock
2377 MHz
1410 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
72GB
40GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
HBM2e
Memory Bus
384bit
5120bit
Bandwidth
1.34TB/s
1555GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
110
108
Shading Units
14080
6912
TMUs
440
432
ROPs
160
160
Tensor Cores
440
432
RT Cores
110
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
96 MB
40 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
380.3 GPixel/s
225.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
1045.9 GTexel/s
609.1 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
66.94 TFLOPS
77.97 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
66.94 TFLOPS
19.49 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1045.9 GFLOPS
9.746 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB202
GA100
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
7 nm
Transistors
92.2 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
750 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
400W
Suggested PSU
700 W
800 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.4
N/A
CUDA
12.0
8.0
Shader Model
6.9
N/A
Benchmark
Blender
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.