GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and A100 SXM4 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

A100 SXM4

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP104

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

May 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1733 MHz

Core clock speed

1607 MHz

1410 MHz

Floating-point performance

8,873 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

6912

Power consumption (TDP)

180 Watt

400 Watt

Texture fill rate

277.3

609.1

Memory type

GDDR5X

HBM2E

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

40 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

5120 Bit

Memory clock speed

11008 MHz

2430 MHz

Memory bandwidth

352.3 GB/s

1,555 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.0

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2.140