NVIDIA A30 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

NVIDIA A30

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A30

250.1x more texture fill rate: 322.6 GTexel/s vs 1,290 GTexel/s
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 165 Watt vs 450 Watt

Texture fill rate	322.6 GTexel/s vs 1,290 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt vs 450 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 2235 MHz vs 930 MHz
Around 75% higher boost clock speed: 2520 MHz vs 1440 MHz
4.6x more pipelines: 16384 vs 3584
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 7 nm
Around 8% higher memory clock speed: 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective
2.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 317791 vs 127071

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 Sep 2022 vs 12 Apr 2021
Core clock speed	2235 MHz vs 930 MHz
Boost clock speed	2520 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Pipelines	16384 vs 3584
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 7 nm
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	317791 vs 127071

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A30
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

127071

317791

Name	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Geekbench - OpenCL	127071	317791
PassMark - G2D Mark		1297
PassMark - G3D Mark		38287
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		9223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		582.642
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		98.472
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		178.756
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2968.159
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Ada Lovelace
Code name	GA100	AD102
Launch date	12 Apr 2021	20 Sep 2022
Place in performance rating	99	13
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1440 MHz	2520 MHz
Core clock speed	930 MHz	2235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)	1,290 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)	82.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.32 TFLOPS	82.58 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3584	16384
Pixel fill rate	138.2 GPixel/s	443.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	322.6 GTexel/s	1,290 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt	450 Watt
Transistor count	54200 million	76300 million
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	304 mm, 12 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt	850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	1x 16-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches	137 mm, 5.4 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	24 GB	24 GB
Memory bandwidth	933.1 GB/s	1,008 GB/s
Memory bus width	3072 bit	384 bit
Memory clock speed	1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Memory type	HBM2e	GDDR6X