A100 PCIe and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
A100 PCIe
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GA100
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2020
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1410 MHz
1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
54,200 million
13,250 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
40 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
5120 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
2.4 GB/s
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
1,555 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.0
8.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.5
Vulkan
1.2
1.2