A100 PCIe 40 GB and GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q - video card comparison

A100 PCIe 40 GB

GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GA100

AD103

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2020

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin EPS

None

Boost clock speed

1410 MHz

1455 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

4 nm

Number of transistors

54,200 million

45,900 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

6912

9728

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

609.1

442.3

Memory type

HBM2e

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

40 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

5120 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

2.4 GB/s

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1,555 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

N/A

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.0

8.9

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

N/A

4.6

Shader Model

N/A

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3