NVIDIA GRID A100A vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM GRID A100A and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1005MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

6896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (21W vs 400W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID A100A +47796%

13.89 TFLOPS

Quadro NVS 290

0.029 TFLOPS

GRID A100A

VS

Quadro NVS 290

Graphics Card

May 2020

Release Date

Oct 2007

GRID

Generation

Quadro NVS

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1005 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM2e

Memory Type

DDR2

6144bit

Memory Bus

64bit

1866GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

108

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

6912

Shading Units

16

432

TMUs

8

192

ROPs

4

432

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

48 MB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

193.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

434.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

55.57 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.89 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

6.947 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

G86

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

80 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

400W

TDP

21W

800 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DMS-59

None

Power Connectors

None

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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