Tesla A100 and GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB - video card comparison

Tesla A100

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GA100

Ampere GA102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1260 MHz

Core clock speed

1110 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

38,000 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

7936

8960

Power consumption (TDP)

260 Watt

350 Watt

Texture fill rate

550.6

478.8

Memory type

HBM2e

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

32 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

2400 MHz

1710 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1,229 GB/s

912.4 GB/s

Shared memory

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