A100 SXM4 and RTX A4000 - video card comparison

A100 SXM4

RTX A4000

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GA100

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

May 2020

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1560 MHz

Core clock speed

1410 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

54,200 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

6912

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

400 Watt

140 Watt

Texture fill rate

609.1

299.5

Memory type

HBM2E

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

40 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

5120 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

2430 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1,555 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.0

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.140

1.3