NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada vs NVIDIA A800 PCIe 40 GB. Specifications

Comparison of basic technical data of graphics cards NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada and NVIDIA A800 PCIe 40 GB, chip, information processing units.

• Architecture
  Ada Lovelace Ampere
• Execution Units
  18176 6912
• GPU Chip
  AD102 GA100
• L1 Cache
  128 KB 192 KB
• L2 Cache
  96 MB 40 MB
• Render Output Units
  192 160
• RT Cores
  142 -
• Texture Units
  568 432

Video memory capacity, type, bus width and bandwidth describe different properties. These values alone do not determine graphics performance.

• Memory Bandwidth
  768 GB/s 1,555 GB/s
• Memory Bus
  384 bit 5120 bit
• Memory Clock
  2000 MHz 1215 MHz
• Memory Data Rate
  16 Gbps 2.4 Gbps
• Memory Size
  48 GB 40 GB
• Memory Type
  GDDR6 HBM2e

Published GPU clock frequencies describe different operating modes. Clock speed alone does not determine graphics performance.

• Base Clock
  2175 MHz 765 MHz
• Boost Clock
  2535 MHz 1410 MHz

Graphics card power limits and recommended system power supply describe different specifications.

• System Power Supply
  700 W (PSU recommendation) 600 W (PSU recommendation)
• TDP
  300 W 250 W

Connectivity and connections.

• DisplayPort Ports
  4 × DisplayPort 1.4a -
• Max. Displays
  4 -
• PCIe Interface
  PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
• Power Connectors
  1x 16-pin 8-pin EPS

Technical data that is used to its full potential in computer games.

• CUDA
  8.9 8.0
• DirectX
  12.2 12.2
• Max. resolution
  3840 × 2160 3840 × 2160
• OpenCL
  3.0 3.0
• OpenGL
  4.6 4.6
• Shader Model
  6.7 -
• Vulkan
  1.3 -

The difference in size, weight and slot of the compared devices

• Length
  267 mm 267 mm
• Slot Size
  Dual-slot Dual-slot
• Width
  112 mm 112 mm

Comparison of interfaces and release dates for GPU NVIDIA A800 PCIe 40 GB and NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada.

• Process Technology
  4 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2022 Q3/2022

• FP16 (theoretical)
  92.15 TFLOPS (1:1) 77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
• FP32 (theoretical)
  92.15 TFLOPS 19.49 TFLOPS
• FP64 (theoretical)
  1,440 GFLOPS (1:64) 9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
• Pixel Rate
  486.7 GPixel/s 225.6 GPixel/s
• Texture Rate
  1,440 GTexel/s 609.1 GTexel/s