A100 SXM4 80 GB vs ION

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameC7A-IONGA100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date3 June 2008 (16 years ago)16 November 2020 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores166912
Core clock speed450 MHz1095 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1410 MHz
Number of transistors282 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt400 Watt
Texture fill rate3.600609.1
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPS19.49 TFLOPS
ROPs4160
TMUs8432
Tensor Coresno data432

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x16
WidthIGPIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedHBM2e
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared80 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared5120 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1593 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data2,039 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)N/A
Shader Model4.0N/A
OpenGL3.3N/A
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 June 2008 16 November 2020
Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 400 Watt

ION has 1900% lower power consumption.

A100 SXM4 80 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between ION and A100 SXM4 80 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that ION is a desktop card while A100 SXM4 80 GB is a workstation one.


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