NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2020
Sep 2014
Generation
Tesla Ampere
GeForce 900
Type
AI GPU
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1275 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1593 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
80GB
4GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
5120bit
256bit
Bandwidth
2039GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
-
Shading Units
6912
2048
TMUs
432
128
ROPs
160
64
Tensor Cores
432
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
40 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
225.6 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
609.1 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
77.97 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
19.49 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
9.746 TFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
GM204
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
398 mm²
GPU Variant
-
GM204-400-A1
Board Design
TDP
400W
165W
Suggested PSU
800 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
8.0
5.2
Shader Model
N/A
6.4