NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +2587%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Mar 2008

Tesla Ampere

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR3

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

128

224

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

16

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

G92

-

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

65 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

197W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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