NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA A100 PCIe
AI GPU
We compared a Professional market GPU: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and a GPU: 40GB VRAM A100 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1800MHz vs 1410MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 40GB)
3840 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA A100 PCIe 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1555GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A6000
+98%
38.71 TFLOPS
A100 PCIe
19.49 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Jun 2020
Quadro Ampere
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
AI GPU
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
765 MHz
1800 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
40GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
384bit
Memory Bus
5120bit
768.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1555GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
84
SM Count
108
10752
Shading Units
6912
336
TMUs
432
112
ROPs
160
336
Tensor Cores
432
84
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
6 MB
L2 Cache
40 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
201.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
225.6 GPixel/s
604.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
609.1 GTexel/s
38.71 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
77.97 TFLOPS
38.71 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.49 TFLOPS
604.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
9.746 TFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
250W
700 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
GA100
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-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
7 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
628 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
8.6
CUDA
8.0
6.7
Shader Model
N/A
