A100 PCIe 80 GB and GeForce RTX 4090 - video card comparison
A100 PCIe 80 GB
GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
GA100
AD102-300-A1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2021
September 2022
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
1410 MHz
2520 MHz
Core clock speed
-
2235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
54,200 million
76,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6912
16384
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
450 Watt
Texture fill rate
609.1
1,290
Memory type
HBM2e
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
80 GB
24 GB
Memory bus width
5120 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
3.2 GB/s
21000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
2,039 GB/s
1,008 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
8.9
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
Shader Model
N/A
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3