A100 PCIe 80 GB vs Tesla M2090

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking462not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.63no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGF110GA100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)28 June 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 cores5126912
Core clock speed651 MHz1065 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1410 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate41.66609.1
Floating-point processing power1.332 TFLOPS19.49 TFLOPS
ROPs48160
TMUs64432
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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length248 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin8-pin EPS

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 GB80 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speed924 MHz1593 MHz
Memory bandwidth177.4 GB/s2,039 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)N/A
Shader Model5.1N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.08.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 28 June 2021
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 80 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm

A100 PCIe 80 GB has an age advantage of 9 years, a 1233.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

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