GeForce RTX 2080 and A100 PCIe - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 2080

A100 PCIe

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Turing TU104

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2018

June 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1710 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1515 MHz

1410 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

13,600 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2944

6912

Power consumption (TDP)

215 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

314.6

609.1

Memory type

GDDR6

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

40 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

5120 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

1,555 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.0

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

VR Ready

+

-