A100 PCIe and GeForce FX 5500 - video card comparison

A100 PCIe

GeForce FX 5500

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

GA100

NV34 B1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2020

March 2004

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Core clock speed

1410 MHz

270 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

54,200 million

45 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

6912

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

609.1

1.080

Memory type

HBM2e

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

40 GB

64 MB

Memory bus width

5120 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

2.4 GB/s

332 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1,555 GB/s

5.312 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

9.0a

CUDA

8.0

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2

N/A