A100 PCIe and GeForce RTX 3070 - video card comparison
A100 PCIe
GeForce RTX 3070
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GA100
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2020
September 2020
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1725 MHz
Core clock speed
1410 MHz
1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
54,200 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6912
5888
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
609.1
317.4
Memory type
HBM2e
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
40 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
5120 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2.4 GB/s
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
1,555 GB/s
448.0 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
8.5
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.5
Vulkan
1.2
1.2