NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER and NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 81% higher core clock speed: 1980 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Around 76% higher boost clock speed: 2475 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Around 4% higher pipelines: 7168 vs 6912
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
Around 82% lower typical power consumption: 220 Watt vs 400 Watt

Launch date	8 Jan 2024 vs 16 Nov 2020
Core clock speed	1980 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed	2475 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Pipelines	7168 vs 6912
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	220 Watt vs 400 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 554.4 GTexel/s
6.7x more maximum memory size: 80 GB vs 12 GB
Around 21% higher memory clock speed: 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective) vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Around 9% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 209695 vs 192385

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	609.1 GTexel/s vs 554.4 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	80 GB vs 12 GB
Memory clock speed	1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective) vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	209695 vs 192385

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

192385

209695

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	1174
PassMark - G3D Mark	30058
Geekbench - OpenCL	192385	209695
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4622

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD104	GA100
Launch date	8 Jan 2024	16 Nov 2020
Place in performance rating	21	23
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2475 MHz	1410 MHz
Core clock speed	1980 MHz	1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	7168	6912
Pixel fill rate	198.0 GPixel/s	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	554.4 GTexel/s	609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	220 Watt	400 Watt
Transistor count	35800 million	54200 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		19.49 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	IGP
Height	42 mm, 1.7 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt	800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	None
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	80 GB
Memory bandwidth	504.2 GB/s	2039 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	5120 bit
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective	1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6X	HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)