
A100 PCIe and 3D Rage II - video card comparison
A100 PCIe
3D Rage II
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Mach (1992−1997)
GPU code name
GA100
Mach64 GT-B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2020
September 1996
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
-
Core clock speed
1410 MHz
60 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
500 nm
Number of transistors
54,200 million
5 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6912
-
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
609.1
0.06
Memory type
HBM2e
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
40 GB
4 MB
Memory bus width
5120 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2.4 GB/s
83 MHz
Memory bandwidth
1,555 GB/s
664.0 MB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x VGA
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
5.0
CUDA
8.0
-
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
Shader Model
6.5
-
Vulkan
1.2
N/A