Product Compare
NVIDIA DRIVE A100 PROD vs AMD Radeon R9 290
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | May 2020 | Nov 2013 |
| Generation | DRIVE | Volcanic Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1260 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1260 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1215 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 32GB | 4GB |
| Memory Type | HBM2e | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 6144bit | 512bit |
| Bandwidth | 1.87TB/s | 320.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 108 | |
| Shading Units | 6912 | 2560 |
| TMUs | 432 | 160 |
| ROPs | 192 | 64 |
| Tensor Cores | 432 | |
| L1 Cache | 192 KB (per SM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 32 MB | 1024 KB |
| Compute Units | 40 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 241.9 GPixel/s | 60.61 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 544.3 GTexel/s | 151.5 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 69.67 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 17.42 TFLOPS | 4.849 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 8.709 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 | 400W | 275W |
| Suggested PSU | 800 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | No outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | None | 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 |