A30X vs RTX A5000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	35	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	17.89	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GA102	GA100
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	12 April 2021 (3 years ago)	12 April 2021 (3 years 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 cores	8192	3584
Core clock speed	1170 MHz	1035 MHz
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	1440 MHz
Number of transistors	28,300 million	54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	230 Watt	230 Watt
Texture fill rate	433.9	322.6
Floating-point processing power	27.77 TFLOPS	10.32 TFLOPS
ROPs	96	96
TMUs	256	224
Tensor Cores	256	224
Ray Tracing Cores	64	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 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 type	GDDR6	HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	24 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	3072 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	1593 MHz
Memory bandwidth	768.0 GB/s	1,223 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 Connectors

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

No outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	N/A
Shader Model	6.7	N/A
OpenGL	4.6	N/A
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.3	N/A
CUDA	8.6	8.0

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

8 nm

7 nm

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