Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs A100 PCIe 80 GB

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated198
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data54.09
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA100AD107
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date28 June 2021 (3 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a 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 cores69122048
Core clock speed1065 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speed1410 MHz2025 MHz
Number of transistors54,200 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate609.1129.6
Floating-point processing power19.49 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs16032
TMUs43264
Tensor Cores43264
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPSno 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 amount80 GB4 GB
Memory bus width5120 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1593 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth2,039 GB/s128.0 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.

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader ModelN/A6.8
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCL3.03.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA8.08.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2021 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 80 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 35 Watt

A100 PCIe 80 GB has a 1900% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 614.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between A100 PCIe 80 GB and RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that A100 PCIe 80 GB is a workstation card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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