NVIDIA REFUSED To Send Us This - NVIDIA A100

Summary by Krater

Linus Tech Tips tears down and tests the unreleased NVIDIA A100 40GB enterprise GPU, comparing its hardware, blender render speeds, and crypto mining performance against the RTX 3090.

From the video

Answers: What is inside the unreleased NVIDIA A100 enterprise GPU and how does it perform in rendering and mining compared to consumer cards?

• NVIDIA A100 tear down
• Enterprise GPU vs gaming GPU
• Blender rendering performance benchmarking
• Crypto mining efficiency
• CUDA cores and HBM2 memory

What it concludes

• The NVIDIA A100 lacks consumer video output ports and does not support Windows gaming or DirectX workloads.
• In Blender rendering, the consumer RTX 3090 outperforms the enterprise A100 while consuming significantly less power.
• Running ResNet50 machine learning benchmarks on Ubuntu drastically increases the performance of the A100 compared to running on Windows.
• The A100 demonstrates extreme power efficiency in crypto mining, achieving massive hash rates at much lower wattages than consumer GPUs.