NVIDIA A30 vs NVIDIA Quadro GV100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA Quadro GV100 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 - 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A30

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 696.8x more texture fill rate: 322.6 GTexel/s vs 463.0 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 165 Watt vs 250 Watt
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 vs 27 March 2018
Texture fill rate 322.6 GTexel/s vs 463.0 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro GV100

  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1132 MHz vs 930 MHz
  • Around 13% higher boost clock speed: 1628 MHz vs 1440 MHz
  • Around 43% higher pipelines: 5120 vs 3584
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 24 GB
  • Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 1696 MHz vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective
  • Around 13% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 144084 vs 127026
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1132 MHz vs 930 MHz
Boost clock speed 1628 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Pipelines 5120 vs 3584
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 24 GB
Memory clock speed 1696 MHz vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 144084 vs 127026

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A30
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro GV100

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
127026
144084
Name NVIDIA A30 NVIDIA Quadro GV100
Geekbench - OpenCL 127026 144084
PassMark - G3D Mark 19824
PassMark - G2D Mark 848
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 562.775
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 141.066
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1964.377
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19663
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19663
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA A30 NVIDIA Quadro GV100

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Volta
Code name GA100 GV100
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 27 March 2018
Place in performance rating 101 103
Launch price (MSRP) $8,999
Type Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1440 MHz 1628 MHz
Core clock speed 930 MHz 1132 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.32 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3584 5120
Pixel fill rate 138.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 322.6 GTexel/s 463.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 54200 million 21,100 million
Floating-point performance 14,817 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 8-pin EPS 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

OpenCL 3.0
DirectX 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 32 GB
Memory bandwidth 933.1 GB/s 870.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 3072 bit 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective 1696 MHz
Memory type HBM2e HBM2