NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2020
May 2016
Generation
Tesla Ampere
GeForce 10
Type
AI GPU
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1095 MHz
1607 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1733 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
40GB
8GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
5120bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1555GB/s
320.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
20
Shading Units
6912
2560
TMUs
432
160
ROPs
160
64
Tensor Cores
432
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L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
40 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
225.6 GPixel/s
110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
609.1 GTexel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
77.97 TFLOPS
138.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.49 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
9.746 TFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
GP104
Architecture
Ampere
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
16 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
314 mm²
GPU Variant
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GP104-400-A1
Board Design
TDP
400W
180W
Suggested PSU
800 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
8.0
6.1
Shader Model
N/A
6.4
Benchmark
Blender
2,186
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3DMark Time Spy
—
7,565
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
3,446
Battlefield 5 1080p
—
128
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
62
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
99
Battlefield 5 2160p
—
52
Battlefield 5 1440p
—
97
GTA 5 2160p
—
56
GTA 5 1440p
—
74
GTA 5 1080p
—
154
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.