GPU Comparison

NVIDIA A100 PCIevsNVIDIA RTX 3090

Comprehensive comparison for AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads.

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NVIDIA A100 PCIe

Ampere Architecture

VRAM80 GB HBM2e
FP32 Performance19.5 TFLOPS
Memory Bandwidth1935 GB/s
TDP300W
Avg. Price/Hour$0.98
Performance Leader
NVIDIA

NVIDIA RTX 3090

Ampere Architecture

VRAM24 GB GDDR6X
FP32 Performance35.6 TFLOPS
Memory Bandwidth936 GB/s
TDP350W
Avg. Price/Hour$0.22

Detailed Specifications

SpecificationNVIDIA A100 PCIeNVIDIA RTX 3090
Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Release Year
2020
2020
VRAM
80 GB+233.3%
24 GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR6X
Memory Bandwidth
1935 GB/s+106.7%
936 GB/s
FP32 Performance
19.5 TFLOPS
35.6 TFLOPS+45.2%
FP16 Performance
78 TFLOPS+9.9%
71 TFLOPS
INT8 Performance
624 TOPS+119.7%
284 TOPS
Tensor Cores
6912
10496
CUDA Cores
6912
10496
TDP
300W
350W
Form Factor
PCIe
Consumer
NVLink Support
No
Yes
Avg. Price/Hour
$0.98+345.5%
$0.22

Performance Breakdown

Compute Performance

Single-precision floating-point performance for general compute workloads

NVIDIA A100 PCIe
19.5TFLOPS
NVIDIA RTX 3090
35.6TFLOPS

NVIDIA RTX 3090 is 45.2% faster

AI Training Performance

Half-precision performance optimized for deep learning training

NVIDIA A100 PCIe
78TFLOPS
NVIDIA RTX 3090
71TFLOPS

NVIDIA A100 PCIe is 9.9% faster

AI Inference Performance

Integer performance for efficient model inference and deployment

NVIDIA A100 PCIe
624TOPS
NVIDIA RTX 3090
284TOPS

NVIDIA A100 PCIe is 119.7% faster

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU and memory

NVIDIA A100 PCIe
1935GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3090
936GB/s

NVIDIA A100 PCIe is 106.7% faster

Performance

NVIDIA RTX 3090

Memory

NVIDIA A100 PCIe

Value

NVIDIA RTX 3090

Efficiency

NVIDIA RTX 3090

Ideal Workloads

NVIDIA

NVIDIA A100 PCIe

ML Training
AI Inference
Edge AI
NVIDIA

NVIDIA RTX 3090

AI Prototyping
Content Creation
Budget ML Training

Cost Analysis

Hourly Rate

NVIDIA A100 PCIe
$0.98per hour
NVIDIA RTX 3090
$0.22per hour
Savings with NVIDIA RTX 3090$0.76 (78%)

Daily Cost

NVIDIA A100 PCIe
$23.52per day
NVIDIA RTX 3090
$5.28per day
Savings with NVIDIA RTX 3090$18.24 (78%)

Monthly Cost

NVIDIA A100 PCIe
$715.40per month
NVIDIA RTX 3090
$160.60per month
Savings with NVIDIA RTX 3090$554.80 (78%)

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