NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation 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.

NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1290 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1565 MHz vs 1410 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
5.7x lower typical power consumption: 70 Watt vs 400 Watt
Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)

Launch date	21 Mar 2023 vs 16 Nov 2020
Core clock speed	1290 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed	1565 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt vs 400 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

2x more texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 300.5 GTexel/s
Around 13% higher pipelines: 6912 vs 6144
4x more maximum memory size: 80 GB vs 20 GB
Around 71% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 209899 vs 123076

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	609.1 GTexel/s vs 300.5 GTexel/s
Pipelines	6912 vs 6144
Maximum memory size	80 GB vs 20 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	209899 vs 123076

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

123076

209899

Name	NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	1128
PassMark - G3D Mark	21042
Geekbench - OpenCL	123076	209899

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD104	GA100
Launch date	21 Mar 2023	16 Nov 2020
Place in performance rating	31	28
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1565 MHz	1410 MHz
Core clock speed	1290 MHz	1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	6144	6912
Pixel fill rate	125.2 GPixel/s	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	300.5 GTexel/s	609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 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	4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	168 mm, 6.6 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt	800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Width	69 mm, 2.7 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	20 GB	80 GB
Memory bandwidth	280.0 GB/s	2039 GB/s
Memory bus width	160 bit	5120 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)