A100 SXM4 40 GB and GeForce RTX 4080 - video card comparison

A100 SXM4 40 GB

GeForce RTX 4080

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GA100

AD103-300-A1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

May 2020

September 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

1410 MHz

2505 MHz

Core clock speed

2205 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

54,200 million

45,900 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

6912

9728

Power consumption (TDP)

400 Watt

320 Watt

Texture fill rate

609.1

761.5

Memory type

HBM2e

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

40 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

5120 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

2.4 GB/s

22400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1,555 GB/s

716.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

N/A

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.0

8.9

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

N/A

4.6

Shader Model

N/A

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3