Tesla K40c and Tesla A100 - video card comparison

Tesla K40c

Tesla A100

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GK180

GA100

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

October 2013

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

876 MHz

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Core clock speed

745 MHz

1110 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,291 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

7,080 million

38,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2880

7936

Power consumption (TDP)

245 Watt

260 Watt

Texture fill rate

210.2

550.6

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

32 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

6008 MHz

2400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

1,229 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

3.5

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OpenCL

1.2

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OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

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Vulkan

1.1.103

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