NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 42% higher core clock speed: 1560 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Around 32% higher boost clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Around 3% higher texture fill rate: 625.0 GTexel/s vs 609.1 GTexel/s
Around 56% higher pipelines: 10752 vs 6912

Launch date	27 Jan 2022 vs 16 Nov 2020
Core clock speed	1560 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed	1860 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Texture fill rate	625.0 GTexel/s vs 609.1 GTexel/s
Pipelines	10752 vs 6912

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 400 Watt vs 450 Watt
3.3x more maximum memory size: 80 GB vs 24 GB
Around 21% higher memory clock speed: 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective) vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Around 2% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 209899 vs 205205

Specifications (specs)
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	400 Watt vs 450 Watt
Maximum memory size	80 GB vs 24 GB
Memory clock speed	1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective) vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	209899 vs 205205

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

205205

209899

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	1226
PassMark - G3D Mark	29671
Geekbench - OpenCL	205205	209899
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 GeForce RTX 3090 Ti	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Ampere
Code name	GA102	GA100
Launch date	27 Jan 2022	16 Nov 2020
Place in performance rating	27	28
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1860 MHz	1410 MHz
Core clock speed	1560 MHz	1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	625.0 GFLOPS (1:64)	9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	40.00 TFLOPS (1:1)	77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	40.00 TFLOPS	19.49 TFLOPS
Pipelines	10752	6912
Pixel fill rate	208.3 GPixel/s	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	625.0 GTexel/s	609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	450 Watt	400 Watt
Transistor count	28300 million	54200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Triple-slot	IGP
Height	61 mm, 2.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	336 mm, 13.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	850 Watt	800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	None
Width	140 mm, 5.5 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	1,008 GB/s	2039 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit	5120 bit
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective	1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6X	HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)