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A100 PCIe 40 GB: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started A100 PCIe 40 GB sales 22 June 2020. This is a desktop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 40 GB of HBM2e memory clocked at 2.4 GB/s are supplied, and together with 5120 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1,555 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 8-pin EPS power connector is required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about A100 PCIe 40 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | GA100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 22 June 2020 (4 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
A100 PCIe 40 GB's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of A100 PCIe 40 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 6912 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1410 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 54,200 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 250 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 609.1 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point performance | 19.49 gflops | of 96.77 (GeForce RTX TITAN Ada) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of A100 PCIe 40 GB and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 8-pin EPS |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on A100 PCIe 40 GB: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | HBM2e | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 40 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 5120 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2.4 GB/s | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,555 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on A100 PCIe 40 GB. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by A100 PCIe 40 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | N/A | |
| Shader Model | N/A | |
| OpenGL | N/A | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 8.0 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to A100 PCIe 40 GB is Radeon Vega Frontier Edition.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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