NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 RTX 4000 Ada Generation

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1290 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1665 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Around 7% higher pipelines: 7424 vs 6912
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
3.6x lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 400 Watt
Around 85% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)

Core clock speed	1290 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Pipelines	7424 vs 6912
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt vs 400 Watt
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Around 58% higher texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 386.3 GTexel/s
3.3x more maximum memory size: 40 GB vs 12 GB
Around 38% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 200738 vs 145628

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	609.1 GTexel/s vs 386.3 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	40 GB vs 12 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	200738 vs 145628

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

145628

200738

Name	NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	731
PassMark - G3D Mark	22529
Geekbench - OpenCL	145628	200738
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 RTX 4000 Ada Generation	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD104	GA100
Place in performance rating	45	7
Launch date		14 May 2020
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz	1410 MHz
Core clock speed	1290 MHz	1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	7424	6912
Pixel fill rate	133.2 GPixel/s	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	386.3 GTexel/s	609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt	400 Watt
Transistor count	35800 million	54200 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		19.49 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Recommended system power (PSU)		800 Watt
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	40 GB
Memory bandwidth	432.0 GB/s	1555 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	5120 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)