NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

3104 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +667%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Mar 2010

Tesla Ampere

Generation

GeForce 400

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

924 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1536MB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

384bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

15

3584

Shading Units

480

224

TMUs

60

96

ROPs

48

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GF100

-

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (11_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

2.0

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

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