NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Around 85% higher boost clock speed: 2610 MHz vs 1410 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 7 nm
Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 285 Watt vs 400 Watt

Launch date	2023 vs 16 Nov 2020
Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed	2610 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	285 Watt vs 400 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Around 27% higher texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 480.2 GTexel/s
Around 17% higher pipelines: 6912 vs 5888
6.7x more maximum memory size: 80 GB vs 12 GB
Around 21% higher memory clock speed: 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective) vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Around 22% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 204643 vs 167641

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	609.1 GTexel/s vs 480.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines	6912 vs 5888
Maximum memory size	80 GB vs 12 GB
Memory clock speed	1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective) vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	204643 vs 167641

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

167641

204643

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	1120
PassMark - G3D Mark	27017
Geekbench - OpenCL	167641	204643
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	17864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	380.329
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	55.419
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	303.359
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2470.261

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD104	GA100
Launch date	2023	16 Nov 2020
Place in performance rating	30	33
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2610 MHz	1410 MHz
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	480.2 GFLOPS (1:64)	9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	30.74 TFLOPS (1:1)	77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	30.74 TFLOPS	19.49 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5888	6912
Pixel fill rate	167.0 GPixel/s	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	480.2 GTexel/s	609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	285 Watt	400 Watt
Transistor count	35800 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	Dual-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)	600 Watt	800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-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	12 GB	80 GB
Memory bandwidth	504.2 GB/s	2039 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 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)