NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB vs NVIDIA PG506 242
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2020
Apr 2021
Generation
Tesla Ampere
Tesla
Type
AI GPU
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1095 MHz
930 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1440 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
40GB
24GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
HBM2
Memory Bus
5120bit
3072bit
Bandwidth
1555GB/s
933.1GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
56
Shading Units
6912
3584
TMUs
432
224
ROPs
160
96
Tensor Cores
432
224
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
40 MB
24 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
225.6 GPixel/s
138.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
609.1 GTexel/s
322.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
77.97 TFLOPS
10.32 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.49 TFLOPS
10.32 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
9.746 TFLOPS
5.161 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
GA100
Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
7 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
400W
165W
Suggested PSU
800 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
N/A
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
CUDA
8.0
8.0
Shader Model
N/A
N/A
📊 Benchmark
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