A100 PCIe 80 GB and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
A100 PCIe 80 GB
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GA100
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2021
September 2021
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1410 MHz
1777 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
54,200 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6912
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
609.1
199.0
Memory type
HBM2e
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
80 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
5120 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
3.2 GB/s
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
2,039 GB/s
360.0 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
8.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
Shader Model
N/A
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3