Quadro RTX 5000 and A100 SXM4 - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 5000

A100 SXM4

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU104

GA100

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2018

May 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1815 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1620 MHz

1410 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

13,600 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

6912

Power consumption (TDP)

230 Watt

400 Watt

Texture fill rate

348.5

609.1

Memory type

GDDR6

HBM2E

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

40 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

5120 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

2430 MHz

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

1,555 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

No outputs

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

1.2.140