NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 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, 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), Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 2235 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Around 79% higher boost clock speed: 2520 MHz vs 1410 MHz
2.4x more pipelines: 16384 vs 6912
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)
Around 58% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 317521 vs 200556

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 Sep 2022 vs 14 May 2020
Core clock speed	2235 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed	2520 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Pipelines	16384 vs 6912
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	317521 vs 200556

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

472.2x more texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 1,290 GTexel/s
Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 400 Watt vs 450 Watt
Around 67% higher maximum memory size: 40 GB vs 24 GB

Texture fill rate	609.1 GTexel/s vs 1,290 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	400 Watt vs 450 Watt
Maximum memory size	40 GB vs 24 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

317521

200556

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	1294
PassMark - G3D Mark	38529
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	36466
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	461.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	93.23
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	200.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	4413.025
Geekbench - OpenCL	317521	200556
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	0
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		21006
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		21006
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		27823
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		27823
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		51880
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		51880

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD102	GA100
Launch date	20 Sep 2022	14 May 2020
Place in performance rating	10	9
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2520 MHz	1410 MHz
Core clock speed	2235 MHz	1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,290 GFLOPS (1:64)	9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	82.58 TFLOPS (1:1)	77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	82.58 TFLOPS	19.49 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16384	6912
Pixel fill rate	443.5 GPixel/s	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	1,290 GTexel/s	609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	450 Watt	400 Watt
Transistor count	76300 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	304 mm, 12 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	850 Watt	800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	None
Width	137 mm, 5.4 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	40 GB
Memory bandwidth	1,008 GB/s	1555 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit	5120 bit
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective	1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6X	HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)