NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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

Lower TDP (165W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1695MHz vs 1440MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 933.1GB/s)

6912 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +244%

35.58 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

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

1395 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

24GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6X

3072bit

Memory Bus

384bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

82

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

10496

224

TMUs

328

96

ROPs

112

224

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA102

-

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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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