NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2020
May 2020
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Tesla Ampere
Type
Professional
AI GPU
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1410 MHz
1095 MHz
Boost Clock
1800 MHz
1410 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
48GB
40GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
HBM2e
Memory Bus
384bit
5120bit
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
1555GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
84
108
Shading Units
10752
6912
TMUs
336
432
ROPs
112
160
Tensor Cores
336
432
RT Cores
84
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
40 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
201.6 GPixel/s
225.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
604.8 GTexel/s
609.1 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
38.71 TFLOPS
77.97 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.71 TFLOPS
19.49 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
604.8 GFLOPS
9.746 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GA100
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
300W
400W
Suggested PSU
700 W
800 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
None
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
6.7
N/A
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
17,742
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
9,324
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OctaneBench
600
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3DMark Speed Way
4,965
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Blender
5,387
2,186
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.