
GeForce GTX 660 and Tesla A100 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 660
Tesla A100
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GK106
GA100
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
September 2012
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Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1033 MHz
-
Core clock speed
980 MHz
1110 MHz
CUDA cores
960
-
Floating-point performance
1,981 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,540 million
38,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
7936
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
260 Watt
Texture fill rate
78.4 billion/sec
550.6
Memory type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
32 GB
Memory bus width
192-bit GDDR5
4096 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.0 GB/s
2400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
144.2 GB/s
1,229 GB/s
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.3
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision
+
-