Quadro M4000 and A100 PCIe - video card comparison

Quadro M4000

A100 PCIe

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM204

GA100

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

June 2015

June 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

773 MHz

1410 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,573 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1664

6912

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

80.39

609.1

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

40 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

5120 Bit

Memory clock speed

6008 MHz

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

Up to 192 GB/s

1,555 GB/s

Display Connectors

DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo

No outputs

Number of simultaneous displays

4

-

DirectX

12

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

5.2

8.0

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5

6.5

Vulkan

+

1.2

3D Vision Pro

+

-

High-Performance Video I/O6

+

-

Mosaic

+

-

Multi-display synchronization

Quadro Sync

-

nView Desktop Management

+

-