NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

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NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 80GB VRAM A100 PCIe 80 GB and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1935GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

6904 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A100 PCIe 80 GB +88490%

19.49 TFLOPS

Quadro NVS 420

0.022 TFLOPS

A100 PCIe 80 GB

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Quadro NVS 420

Graphics Card

Jun 2021

Release Date

Jan 2009

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Quadro NVS

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

-

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1512 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

80GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR3

5120bit

Memory Bus

64bit

1935GB/s

Bandwidth

11.20GB/s

Render Config

108

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

6912

Shading Units

8

432

TMUs

4

160

ROPs

4

432

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

80 MB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

225.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

609.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

77.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

19.49 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

9.746 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

G98

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

65 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

40W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x VHDCI

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

1.1

N/A

Shader Model

4.0

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