A100 PCIe 40 GB and GeForce RTX 5080 - video card comparison
A100 PCIe 40 GB
GeForce RTX 5080
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Blackwell 2.0
GPU code name
GA100
GB203
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2020
2025 (recently)
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
1410 MHz
2520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
0 nm
Number of transistors
54,200 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6912
10752
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
350 Watt
Texture fill rate
609.1
846.7
Memory type
HBM2e
GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount
40 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
5120 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2.4 GB/s
5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
1,555 GB/s
160.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
N/A
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.0
9.1
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
Shader Model
N/A
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3