NVIDIA A10 vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A10 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A10

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
  • Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1695 MHz vs 1410 MHz
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 9216 vs 6912
  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 400 Watt
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 vs 16 Nov 2020
Boost clock speed 1695 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Pipelines 9216 vs 6912
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 400 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

  • Around 24% higher core clock speed: 1095 MHz vs 885 MHz
  • Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 488.2 GTexel/s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
  • 3.3x more maximum memory size: 80 GB vs 24 GB
  • Around 2% higher memory clock speed: 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective) vs 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective
  • Around 32% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 209899 vs 158472
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1095 MHz vs 885 MHz
Texture fill rate 609.1 GTexel/s vs 488.2 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size 80 GB vs 24 GB
Memory clock speed 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective) vs 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 209899 vs 158472

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A10
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
158472
209899
Name NVIDIA A10 NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark 1007
PassMark - G3D Mark 22064
Geekbench - OpenCL 158472 209899

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA A10 NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Ampere
Code name GA102 GA100
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 16 Nov 2020
Place in performance rating 29 28

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1695 MHz 1410 MHz
Core clock speed 885 MHz 1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 976.3 GFLOPS (1:32) 9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 31.24 TFLOPS (1:1) 77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 31.24 TFLOPS 19.49 TFLOPS
Pipelines 9216 6912
Pixel fill rate 162.7 GPixel/s 225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 488.2 GTexel/s 609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 400 Watt
Transistor count 28300 million 54200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Single-slot IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-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 24 GB 80 GB
Memory bandwidth 600.2 GB/s 2039 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 bit 5120 bit
Memory clock speed 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)