H100 SXM5 80 GB vs RTX 6000 Ada Generation

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking15not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation7.14no data
Power efficiency17.10no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Hopper (2022−2023)
GPU code nameAD102GH100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date3 December 2022 (2 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$6,799 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 cores1817616896
Core clock speed915 MHz1590 MHz
Boost clock speed2505 MHz1980 MHz
Number of transistors76,300 million80,000 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt700 Watt
Texture fill rate1,4231,045
Floating-point processing power91.06 TFLOPS66.91 TFLOPS
ROPs19224
TMUs568528
Tensor Cores568528
Ray Tracing Cores142no data

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 4.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotSXM Module
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6HBM3
Maximum RAM amount48 GB80 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speed2500 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth960.0 GB/s1,681 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)N/A
Shader Model6.8N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA8.99.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 December 2022 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 48 GB 80 GB
Chip lithography 5 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 700 Watt

RTX 6000 Ada Generation has 133.3% lower power consumption.

H100 SXM5 80 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months, a 66.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between RTX 6000 Ada Generation and H100 SXM5 80 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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