NVIDIA A10 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A10 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A10

  • 3x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 450 Watt
  • Around 19% higher memory clock speed: 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 450 Watt
Memory clock speed 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
  • Around 76% higher core clock speed: 1560 MHz vs 885 MHz
  • Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 1695 MHz
  • Around 28% higher texture fill rate: 625.0 GTexel/s vs 488.2 GTexel/s
  • Around 17% higher pipelines: 10752 vs 9216
  • Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1227 vs 1007
  • Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 29688 vs 22064
  • Around 30% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 205293 vs 158472
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 Jan 2022 vs 12 Apr 2021
Core clock speed 1560 MHz vs 885 MHz
Boost clock speed 1860 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Texture fill rate 625.0 GTexel/s vs 488.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines 10752 vs 9216
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1227 vs 1007
PassMark - G3D Mark 29688 vs 22064
Geekbench - OpenCL 205293 vs 158472

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A10
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1007
1227
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
22064
29688
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
158472
205293
Name NVIDIA A10 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
PassMark - G2D Mark 1007 1227
PassMark - G3D Mark 22064 29688
Geekbench - OpenCL 158472 205293
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 22131
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 A10 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Ampere
Code name GA102 GA102
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 27 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating 29 27

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1695 MHz 1860 MHz
Core clock speed 885 MHz 1560 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 976.3 GFLOPS (1:32) 625.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 31.24 TFLOPS (1:1) 40.00 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 31.24 TFLOPS 40.00 TFLOPS
Pipelines 9216 10752
Pixel fill rate 162.7 GPixel/s 208.3 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 488.2 GTexel/s 625.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 450 Watt
Transistor count 28300 million 28300 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Single-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) 450 Watt 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 16-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches 140 mm, 5.5 inches
Height 61 mm, 2.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 24 GB
Memory bandwidth 600.2 GB/s 1,008 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X