NVIDIA B100 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 96GB VRAM B100 and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA B100 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1837MHz vs 1695MHz)
More VRAM (96GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (4.10TB/s vs 768.0GB/s)
8704 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (230W vs 1000W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
B100
+123%
62.08 TFLOPS
RTX A5000 8Q
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2024
Release Date
Apr 2021
Server Blackwell
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1665 MHz
Base Clock
1170 MHz
1837 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
96GB
Memory Size
8GB
HBM3e
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
384bit
4.10TB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
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-
132
SM Count
64
16896
Shading Units
8192
528
TMUs
256
24
ROPs
96
528
Tensor Cores
256
-
RT Cores
64
256 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
50 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
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Theoretical Performance
44.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
969.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
248.3 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
62.08 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
31.04 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
1000W
TDP
230W
1400 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GB102
GPU Name
GA102
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Blackwell
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
104 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
Unknown
Die Size
628 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
10.1
CUDA
8.6
N/A
Shader Model
6.7
