GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile 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 rated27
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data42.72
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA100AD104
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date14 May 2020 (4 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores79367424
Core clock speed1110 MHz1290 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1665 MHz
Number of transistors38,000 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate550.6386.3
Floating-point processing power17.62 TFLOPS24.72 TFLOPS
ROPs12880
TMUs496232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Coresno data58

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,229 GB/s432.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2020 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 40 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 260 Watt 110 Watt

Tesla A100 has a 233.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 4080 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 136.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla A100 and GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla A100 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile is a notebook one.


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