NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

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NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

AI GPU We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada and a GPU: 40GB VRAM A100 SXM4 40 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (2505MHz vs 1410MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 40GB)

11264 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 400W)

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1555GB/s vs 960.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 6000 Ada +367%

91.06 TFLOPS

A100 SXM4 40 GB

19.49 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada

VS

A100 SXM4 40 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2022

Release Date

May 2020

Quadro Ada

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

AI GPU

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

1095 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

40GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

960.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1555GB/s

Render Config

-

142

SM Count

108

18176

Shading Units

6912

568

TMUs

432

192

ROPs

160

568

Tensor Cores

432

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

96 MB

L2 Cache

40 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

481.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

225.6 GPixel/s

1423 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

609.1 GTexel/s

91.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

77.97 TFLOPS

91.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.49 TFLOPS

1423 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

9.746 TFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

400W

700 W

Suggested PSU

800 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA100

AD102

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

7 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

8.0

6.8

Shader Model

N/A

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