A100 SXM4 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking156not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation19.21no data
Power efficiency7.73no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega 10GA100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date27 June 2017 (7 years ago)14 May 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 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 cores40966912
Core clock speed1382 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed1600 MHzno data
Number of transistors12,500 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt400 Watt
Texture fill rate409.6609.1
Floating-point processing power13.11 TFLOPS19.49 TFLOPS
ROPs64160
TMUs256432
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
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-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 typeHBM2HBM2E
Maximum RAM amount16 GB40 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speed945 MHz1215 MHz
Memory bandwidth483.8 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

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
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.1.1251.2.140
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 June 2017 14 May 2020
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 40 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 400 Watt

Vega Frontier Edition has 33.3% lower power consumption.

A100 SXM4, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 150% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and A100 SXM4. We've got no test results to judge.


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