GeForce GTX 980 and Tesla A100 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980
Tesla A100
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM204
GA100
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
September 2014
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Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1216 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1064 MHz
1110 MHz
CUDA cores
2048
-
Floating-point performance
4,981 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
38,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
7936
Power consumption (TDP)
165 Watt
260 Watt
Texture fill rate
144 billion/sec
550.6
Memory type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
32 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
4096 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
2400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
1,229 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-