Tesla A100 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison

Tesla A100

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GA100

GA104

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1110 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

38,000 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

7936

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

260 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

550.6

199.0

Memory type

HBM2e

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

32 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2400 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1,229 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

1.3