NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290

GPU Specs Compare

G

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB

NVIDIA 2021-06
G

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD 2013-11

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2021
Nov 2013
Generation
Tesla Ampere(Axx)
Volcanic Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1065 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1512 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
80GB
4GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
5120bit
512bit
Bandwidth
1.94TB/s
320.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
108
-
Shading Units
6912
2560
TMUs
432
160
ROPs
160
64
Tensor Cores
432
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
80 MB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
40

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
225.6 GPixel/s
60.61 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
609.1 GTexel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
77.97 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
19.49 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
9.746 TFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA100
Hawaii
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
438 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)

Board Design

TDP
300W
275W
Suggested PSU
700 W
600 W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
N/A
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
8.0
-
Shader Model
N/A
6.3

📊 Benchmark

OctaneBench
310
-
Blender
3,722
-
3DMark Time Spy
-
3,694