Tesla A100 vs Radeon R9 290

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking257not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation7.89no data
Power efficiency5.28no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameHawaiiGA100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date5 November 2013 (11 years ago)14 May 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores25607936
Core clock speed947 MHz1110 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million38,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate151.5550.6
Floating-point processing power4.849 TFLOPS17.62 TFLOPS
ROPs64128
TMUs160496

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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length275 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount4 GB40 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz2400 MHz
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/s1,229 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 November 2013 14 May 2020
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 40 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 260 Watt

Tesla A100 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 900% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 5.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 290 and Tesla A100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 290 is a desktop card while Tesla A100 is a workstation one.


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