A100 SXM4 40 GB and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison

A100 SXM4 40 GB

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GA100

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

May 2020

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1410 MHz

1777 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

54,200 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

6912

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

400 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

609.1

142.2

Memory type

HBM2e

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

40 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

5120 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

2.4 GB/s

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1,555 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

N/A

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.0

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

N/A

4.6

Shader Model

N/A

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3