NVIDIA Tesla V100S PCIe 32 GB vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla V100S PCIe 32 GB 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: 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 Tesla V100S PCIe 32 GB

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla V100S PCIe 32 GB

Around 14% higher core clock speed: 1245 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Around 13% higher boost clock speed: 1597 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 400 Watt

Core clock speed	1245 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed	1597 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 400 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 511.0 GTexel/s
Around 35% higher pipelines: 6912 vs 5120
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm
Around 25% higher maximum memory size: 40 GB vs 32 GB
Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective) vs 1106 MHz (2.2 Gbps effective)
Around 9% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 201255 vs 184219

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 May 2020 vs 26 Nov 2019
Texture fill rate	609.1 GTexel/s vs 511.0 GTexel/s
Pipelines	6912 vs 5120
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 12 nm
Maximum memory size	40 GB vs 32 GB
Memory clock speed	1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective) vs 1106 MHz (2.2 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	201255 vs 184219

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla V100S PCIe 32 GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

184219

201255

Name	NVIDIA Tesla V100S PCIe 32 GB	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
Geekbench - OpenCL	184219	201255
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 Tesla V100S PCIe 32 GB	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Volta	Ampere
Code name	GV100	GA100
Launch date	26 Nov 2019	14 May 2020
Place in performance rating	43	12
Type	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1597 MHz	1410 MHz
Core clock speed	1245 MHz	1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	8.177 TFLOPS (1:2)	9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	32.71 TFLOPS (2:1)	77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	16.35 TFLOPS	19.49 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5120	6912
Pixel fill rate	204.4 GPixel/s	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	511.0 GTexel/s	609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	400 Watt
Transistor count	21100 million	54200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	IGP
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt	800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	32 GB	40 GB
Memory bandwidth	1133 GB/s	1555 GB/s
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	5120 bit
Memory clock speed	1106 MHz (2.2 Gbps effective)	1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)
Memory type	HBM2	HBM2e