GeForce GTX 1080 and A100 SXM4 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1080

A100 SXM4

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Pascal GP104

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2016

May 2020

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)

500 Watt

-

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1733 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1607 MHz

1410 MHz

CUDA cores

2560

-

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

Maximum GPU temperature

94 °C

-

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

10 GB/s

2430 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

1,555 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.0

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2.140

Ansel

+

-

GPU Boost

3.0

-

VR Ready

+

-