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.

 

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 66% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 204643 vs 123109
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 204643 vs 123109

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
123109
204643
Name NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark 1136
PassMark - G3D Mark 20884
Geekbench - OpenCL 123109 204643

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 32 33

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)