GRID A100A: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GRID A100A sales 14 May 2020. This is an Ampere architecture desktop card based on 7 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 48 GB of HBM2e memory clocked at 1.22 GHz are supplied, and together with 6144 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1,866 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 400 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GRID A100A: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | GA100 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 14 May 2020 (4 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GRID A100A's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GRID A100A's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 6912 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 900 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Boost clock speed | 1005 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 54,200 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 400 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 434.2 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 13.89 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 192 | |
| TMUs | 432 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Tensor Cores | 432 | of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GRID A100A and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Width | IGP | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GRID A100A: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | HBM2e | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 48 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 6144 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1215 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,866 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GRID A100A. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GRID A100A, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | |
| CUDA | 8.0 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GRID A100A is Radeon Pro Vega II Duo.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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