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 2.4 GB/s are supplied, and together with 6144 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1,866 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated video card. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 400 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GRID A100A: 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 | Workstation | |
| Release date | 14 May 2020 (3 years ago) |
Technical specs
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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1005 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 54,200 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 400 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 434.2 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and 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 |
Memory
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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 6144 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2.4 GB/s | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,866 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
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 support
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.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GRID A100A according to our statistics.
