NVIDIA A30 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA A30

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A30

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 165 Watt vs 350 Watt

Launch date	12 Apr 2021 vs 1 Sep 2020
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt vs 350 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Around 50% higher core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 930 MHz
Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1695 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Around 72% higher texture fill rate: 556.0 GTexel/s vs 322.6 GTexel/s
2.9x more pipelines: 10496 vs 3584
Around 50% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 191142 vs 127071

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1395 MHz vs 930 MHz
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Texture fill rate	556.0 GTexel/s vs 322.6 GTexel/s
Pipelines	10496 vs 3584
Memory clock speed	1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective) vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	191142 vs 127071

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A30
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

127071

191142

Name	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Geekbench - OpenCL	127071	191142
PassMark - G3D Mark		26668
PassMark - G2D Mark		1060
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		690.619
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		7585.258
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		62.614
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		209.424
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2441.384
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3354
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		5118

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Ampere
Code name	GA100	GA102
Launch date	12 Apr 2021	1 Sep 2020
Place in performance rating	99	46
Launch price (MSRP)		$1499
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1440 MHz	1695 MHz
Core clock speed	930 MHz	1395 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)	556.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)	35.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.32 TFLOPS	35.58 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3584	10496
Pixel fill rate	138.2 GPixel/s	189.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	322.6 GTexel/s	556.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt	350 Watt
Transistor count	54200 million	28300 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches	313 mm (12.3 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt	750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	1x 12-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches	Triple-slot
Height		138 mm (5.4 inches)
API support
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
DirectX		12.2
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	24 GB
Memory bandwidth	933.1 GB/s	936.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	3072 bit	384 bit
Memory clock speed	1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective	1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)
Memory type	HBM2e	GDDR6X