GeForce GTX 590 and A100 SXM4 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 590

A100 SXM4

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF110

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2011

May 2020

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

Two 8-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

607 MHz

1410 MHz

CUDA cores

1024

-

Floating-point performance

2x 1,244.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

3,000 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

6912

Power consumption (TDP)

365 Watt

400 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

97 °C

-

Texture fill rate

77.7 billion/sec

609.1

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2E

Maximum RAM amount

3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)

40 GB

Memory bus width

768-bit (384-bit per GPU)

5120 Bit

Memory clock speed

1707 MHz

2430 MHz

Memory bandwidth

327.7 GB/s

1,555 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.0

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

4.2

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.140