NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1335 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1695 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Around 41% higher pipelines: 9728 vs 6912
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 7 nm
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 400 Watt
Around 26% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)

Launch date	2023 vs 16 Nov 2020
Core clock speed	1335 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Pipelines	9728 vs 6912
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 400 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Around 18% higher texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 515.3 GTexel/s
5x more maximum memory size: 80 GB vs 16 GB
Around 13% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 204456 vs 180351

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	609.1 GTexel/s vs 515.3 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	80 GB vs 16 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	204456 vs 180351

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

180351

204456

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	982
PassMark - G3D Mark	27374
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4911
Geekbench - OpenCL	180351	204456

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD103	GA100
Launch date	2023	16 Nov 2020
Place in performance rating	39	26
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	1410 MHz
Core clock speed	1335 MHz	1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	515.3 GFLOPS (1:64)	9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	32.98 TFLOPS (1:1)	77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	32.98 TFLOPS	19.49 TFLOPS
Pipelines	9728	6912
Pixel fill rate	189.8 GPixel/s	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	515.3 GTexel/s	609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	400 Watt
Transistor count	45900 million	54200 million
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	16 GB	80 GB
Memory bandwidth	512.0 GB/s	2039 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	5120 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)