GeForce RTX 4090 D 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 rated2
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data17.27
Power efficiencyno data14.79
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA100AD102
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date14 May 2020 (4 years ago)28 December 2023 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,599

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 cores793614592
Core clock speed1110 MHz2280 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors38,000 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Watt425 Watt
Texture fill rate550.61,149
Floating-point processing power17.62 TFLOPS73.54 TFLOPS
ROPs128176
TMUs496456
Tensor Coresno data456
Ray Tracing Coresno data114

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 4.0 x16
Length267 mm304 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-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 typeHBM2eGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount40 GB24 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed2400 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,229 GB/s1,008 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 HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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 data6.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2020 28 December 2023
Maximum RAM amount 40 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 260 Watt 425 Watt

Tesla A100 has a 66.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 63.5% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090 D, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla A100 and GeForce RTX 4090 D. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla A100 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 4090 D is a desktop one.


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