A100 PCIe 80 GB and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB - video card comparison
A100 PCIe 80 GB
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GA100
GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2021
October 2022
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
12,000 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
8 GB
Memory bus width
5120 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3.2 GB/s
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
2,039 GB/s
240.0 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
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3