GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs Tesla A100

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated99
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data15.39
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGA100TU106
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date14 May 2020 (4 years ago)7 December 2021 (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 cores79362176
Core clock speed1110 MHz1470 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Number of transistors38,000 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Watt184 Watt
Texture fill rate550.6224.4
Floating-point processing power17.62 TFLOPS7.181 TFLOPS
ROPs12848
TMUs496136
Tensor Coresno data272
Ray Tracing Coresno data34

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 3.0 x16
Length267 mm229 mm
Width2-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 typeHBM2eGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount40 GB12 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2400 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,229 GB/s336.0 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2020 7 December 2021
Maximum RAM amount 40 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 260 Watt 184 Watt

Tesla A100 has a 233.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 71.4% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 2060 12 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 41.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla A100 and GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla A100 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB is a desktop one.


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