NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

VS

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1725MHz vs 1440MHz)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +96%

20.31 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Sep 2020

Tesla Ampere

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

46

3584

Shading Units

5888

224

TMUs

184

96

ROPs

96

224

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

220W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA104

-

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

8.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.6

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