NVIDIA A100 PCIe vs AMD Radeon HD 6950
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2020
Dec 2010
Generation
Tesla
Northern Islands
Type
AI GPU
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
765 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
40GB
2GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
5120bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1555GB/s
160.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
-
Shading Units
6912
1408
TMUs
432
88
ROPs
160
32
Tensor Cores
432
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
40 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
22
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
225.6 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
609.1 GTexel/s
70.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
77.97 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
19.49 TFLOPS
2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
9.746 TFLOPS
563.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
Cayman
Architecture
Ampere
TeraScale 3
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
40 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
389 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Cayman PRO(215-0807019)
Board Design
TDP
250W
200W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
N/A
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
CUDA
8.0
-
Shader Model
N/A
5.0