NVIDIA A800 PCIe 80 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A800 PCIe 80 GB and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

NVIDIA A800 PCIe 80 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A800 PCIe 80 GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
Around 80% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 450 Watt
3.3x more maximum memory size: 80 GB vs 24 GB
Around 15% higher memory clock speed: 1512 MHz, 3 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Around 6% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 218560 vs 205459

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 Nov 2022 vs 27 Jan 2022
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 450 Watt
Maximum memory size	80 GB vs 24 GB
Memory clock speed	1512 MHz, 3 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	218560 vs 205459

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Around 46% higher core clock speed: 1560 MHz vs 1065 MHz
Around 32% higher boost clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Around 3% higher texture fill rate: 625.0 GTexel/s vs 609.1 GTexel/s
Around 56% higher pipelines: 10752 vs 6912

Core clock speed	1560 MHz vs 1065 MHz
Boost clock speed	1860 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Texture fill rate	625.0 GTexel/s vs 609.1 GTexel/s
Pipelines	10752 vs 6912

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A800 PCIe 80 GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

218560

205459

Name	NVIDIA A800 PCIe 80 GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
Geekbench - OpenCL	218560	205459
PassMark - G2D Mark		1226
PassMark - G3D Mark		29699
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		22129
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		259.78
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		63.049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		177.665
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		3026.082

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA A800 PCIe 80 GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Ampere
Code name	GA100	GA102
Launch date	8 Nov 2022	27 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	23	26
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1410 MHz	1860 MHz
Core clock speed	1065 MHz	1560 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	8 nm
Pipelines	6912	10752
Pixel fill rate	225.6 GPixel/s	208.3 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	609.1 GTexel/s	625.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	450 Watt
Transistor count	54200 million	28300 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		625.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		40.00 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		40.00 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Triple-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches	336 mm, 13.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt	850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	1x 16-pin
Width	111 mm, 4.4 inches	140 mm, 5.5 inches
Height		61 mm, 2.4 inches
API support
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
DirectX		12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	80 GB	24 GB
Memory bandwidth	1.94 TB/s	1,008 GB/s
Memory bus width	5120 bit	384 bit
Memory clock speed	1512 MHz, 3 Gbps effective	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Memory type	HBM2e	GDDR6X