A100 PCIe vs Quadro P2000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking290not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation9.73no data
Power efficiency17.39no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGP106GA100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date6 February 2017 (7 years ago)22 June 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$585 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores10246912
Core clock speed1076 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed1480 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,400 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate94.72609.1
Floating-point processing power3.031 TFLOPS19.49 TFLOPS
ROPs40160
TMUs64432
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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length201 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount5 GB40 GB
Memory bus width160 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speed1752 MHz1215 MHz
Memory bandwidth140.2 GB/s1,555 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 Connectors4x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan+1.2
CUDA6.18.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 February 2017 22 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 5 GB 40 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 250 Watt

Quadro P2000 has 233.3% lower power consumption.

A100 PCIe, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 128.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P2000 and A100 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.


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