A100 PCIe 80 GB and GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB - video card comparison
A100 PCIe 80 GB
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GA100
Ampere GA102
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2021
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1410 MHz
1260 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
54,200 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6912
8960
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
350 Watt
Texture fill rate
609.1
478.8
Memory type
HBM2e
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
80 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
5120 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
3.2 GB/s
1710 MHz
Memory bandwidth
2,039 GB/s
912.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
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