Tesla A100 and GeForce RTX 3070 - video card comparison

Tesla A100

GeForce RTX 3070

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GA100

Ampere GA104

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

September 2020

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1725 MHz

Core clock speed

1110 MHz

1500 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

38,000 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

7936

5888

Power consumption (TDP)

260 Watt

220 Watt

Texture fill rate

550.6

317.4

Memory type

HBM2e

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

32 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

2400 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1,229 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.5

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2