Tesla A100 vs Tesla M2070

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking629not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.10no data
Power efficiency1.50no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGF100GA100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)14 May 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,099 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 cores4487936
Core clock speed574 MHz1110 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million38,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate32.14550.6
Floating-point processing power1.03 TFLOPS17.62 TFLOPS
ROPs48128
TMUs56496

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length248 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeGDDR5HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount6 GB40 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed783 MHz2400 MHz
Memory bandwidth150.3 GB/s1,229 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 14 May 2020
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 40 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 260 Watt

Tesla M2070 has 15.6% lower power consumption.

Tesla A100, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 566.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla M2070 and Tesla A100. We've got no test results to judge.


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