NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 5000 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 5000 Ada Generation

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

Around 78% higher boost clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 1410 MHz
2.2x more pipelines: 15360 vs 6912
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 400 Watt
Around 57% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)

Boost clock speed	2505 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Pipelines	15360 vs 6912
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt vs 400 Watt
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1095 MHz vs 915 MHz
506.7x more texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 1,202 GTexel/s
2.5x more maximum memory size: 80 GB vs 32 GB

Core clock speed	1095 MHz vs 915 MHz
Texture fill rate	609.1 GTexel/s vs 1,202 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	80 GB vs 32 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Name	NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	718
PassMark - G3D Mark	24136
Geekbench - OpenCL		204643

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD102	GA100
Place in performance rating	31	33
Launch date		16 Nov 2020
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2505 MHz	1410 MHz
Core clock speed	915 MHz	1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	15360	6912
Pixel fill rate	440.9 GPixel/s	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	1,202 GTexel/s	609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	400 Watt
Transistor count	76300 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 DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt	800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	None
Width	112 mm, 4.4 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	32 GB	80 GB
Memory bandwidth	960.0 GB/s	2039 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit	5120 bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective	1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)