Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA A100 PCIe

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2022 Jun 2020
Generation GeForce 30 Tesla
Type Desktop AI GPU
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1260 MHz 765 MHz
Boost Clock 1710 MHz 1410 MHz
Memory Clock 1188 MHz 1215 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 12GB 40GB
Memory Type GDDR6X HBM2e
Memory Bus 384bit 5120bit
Bandwidth 912.4GB/s 1555GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 70 108
Shading Units 8960 6912
TMUs 280 432
ROPs 96 160
Tensor Cores 280 432
RT Cores 70
L1 Cache 128 KB (per SM) 192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 6 MB 40 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 164.2 GPixel/s 225.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 478.8 GTexel/s 609.1 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 30.64 TFLOPS 77.97 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 30.64 TFLOPS 19.49 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 478.8 GFLOPS 9.746 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GA102 GA100
GPU Variant GA102-220-A1
Architecture Ampere Ampere
Foundry Samsung TSMC
Process Size 8 nm 7 nm
Transistors 28.3 billion 54.2 billion
Die Size 628 mm² 826 mm²
Board Design
TDP 350W 250W
Suggested PSU 750 W 600 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs
Power Connectors 1x 12-pin 8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) N/A
OpenGL 4.6 N/A
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 N/A
CUDA 8.6 8.0
Shader Model 6.8 N/A