RTX 5000 Ada Generation vs H100 PCIe

Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated25
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data1.70
ArchitectureHopper (2022)Ada Lovelace
GPU code nameGH100AD102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date22 March 2022 (2 years ago)9 August 2023 (less than a year ago)
Current price$35000 $5296

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores729612800
Boost clock speed1650 MHz2550 MHz
Number of transistors80,000 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)350 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate752.41,020

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 5.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPS1x 16-pin

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 GB32 GB
Memory bus width5120 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2 GB/s18 GB/s
Memory bandwidth1,280 GB/s576.0 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 outputs4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader ModelN/A6.7
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCL3.03.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA9.08.9

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

H100 PCIe 281868
+19.6%
RTX 5000 Ada Generation 235655

H100 PCIe outperforms RTX 5000 Ada Generation by 20% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2022 9 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 80 GB 32 GB
Chip lithography 4 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 350 Watt 250 Watt

We couldn't decide between H100 PCIe and RTX 5000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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