NVIDIA GA100: specs and benchmarks
Summary
This is a desktop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market.
Primary Details
Some basic facts about GA100: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2022) | |
| GPU code name | GA100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | no data | |
| Current price | $55 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Detailed Specifications
GA100's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GA100's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 8192 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Number of transistors | 54,200 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
Supported GPU Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GA100. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| NVENC | No Support | |
| PureVideo HD | VP10 |
API Compatibility
APIs supported by GA100, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | N/A | |
| Shader Model | N/A | |
| OpenGL | N/A | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 8.0 |
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GA100 according to our statistics.
