GeForce GTX 480 and A100 SXM4 40 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 480

A100 SXM4 40 GB

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF100

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

May 2020

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1410 MHz

Core clock speed

700 MHz

-

CUDA cores

480

-

Floating-point performance

1,345.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

6912

Power consumption (TDP)

295 Watt

400 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

42 billion/sec

609.1

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

40 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

5120 Bit

Memory clock speed

1848 MHz (3696 data rate)

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

1,555 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

N/A

CUDA

+

8.0

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

4.2

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

N/A