Tesla P40 and Tesla A100 - video card comparison

Tesla P40

Tesla A100

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP102

GA100

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

September 2016

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin EPS

None

Boost clock speed

1531 MHz

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Core clock speed

1303 MHz

1110 MHz

Floating-point performance

11,758 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

11,800 million

38,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

7936

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

260 Watt

Texture fill rate

367.4

550.6

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

24 GB

32 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

7.2 GB/s

2400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

347.1 GB/s

1,229 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

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OpenCL

3.0

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OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

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Vulkan

1.3

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