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Best GPUs for deep learning, AI development, compute in 2023–2024. Recommended GPU & hardware for AI training, inference (LLMs, generative AI). GPU training, inference benchmarks using PyTorch, TensorFlow for computer vision (CV), NLP, text-to-speech, etc.
We benchmark these GPUs and compare AI performance (deep learning training; FP16, FP32, PyTorch, TensorFlow), 3d rendering, Cryo-EM performance in the most popular apps (Octane, VRay, Redshift, Blender, Luxmark, Unreal Engine, Relion Cryo-EM).
Our benchmarks will help you decide which GPU (NVIDIA RTX 4090/4080, H100 Hopper, H200, A100, RTX 6000 Ada, A6000, A5000, or RTX 6000 ADA Lovelace) is the best GPU for your needs. We provide an in-depth analysis of the AI performance of each graphic card's performance so you can make the most informed decision possible. We offer deep learning and 3d rendering benchmarks that will help you get the most out of your hardware.
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Benchmarks
Deep Learning GPU Benchmarks 2024–2025 [Updated]
Resnet50 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1720
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
5934
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet50 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet50 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
927
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1715
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet50 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet152 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet152 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet152 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Resnet152 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V3 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V3 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V3 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V3 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V4 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V4 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V4 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Inception V4 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
VGG16 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
VGG16 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
VGG16 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
VGG16 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Googlenet (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Googlenet (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
3D, GPU Rendering Benchmarks 2024–2025 [Updated]
V-Ray
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
5556
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Octane
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1445
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Redshift
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1.16
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Blender
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
981.58
NVIDIA RTX 4090
12123.96
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Luxmark
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
158815
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Unreal Engine
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
92.1
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
RELION Cryo-EM Benchmarks 2024-2025 [Updated]
Total run time
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
105.2
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
53.2
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
BERT LARGE Training, Inference Benchmark 2024-2025 [Updated]
Training Time (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Performance (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Training Time (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Performance (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Llama3 70B Inference Benchmark 2024–2025 [Updated]
Eval rate
1 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
9.95
2 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
19.99
4 GPU
NVIDIA A16
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
Technical Specifications
Board Design
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Length | 267 mm | 336 mm |
| Outputs | No outputs | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort |
| Power Connectors | 8-pin EPS | 1x 16-pin |
| Slot width | Dual-slot | Triple-slot |
| TDP | 250 W | 450 W |
Clock Speeds
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 1695 MHz | 2520 MHz |
| GPU Clock | 885 MHz | 2235 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 14500 MHz | 21200 MHz |
Graphics Card
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Generation | Tesla (Axx) | GeForce 40 |
Graphics Features
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | 6.7 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | 8.9 |
Graphics Processor
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Name | GA107 | AD102-300-A1 |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | mm2 | 608 mm2 |
| Transistors | million | 76300 million |
Memory
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth | 231.9 GB/s | 1018 GB/s |
| Memory Bus | 128 bit | 384 bit |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
Render Config
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| ROPs | 40 | 192 |
| RT Cores | 10 | 128 |
| Shading Units/ CUDA Cores | 1280 | 16384 |
| TMUs | 40 | 512 |
| Tensor Cores | 40 | 512 |
Theoretical Performance
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| FP16 (half) performance | 4.339 TFLOPS | 82.58 TFLOPS |
| FP32 (float) performance | 4.339 TFLOPS | 82.58 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) performance | 135.6 GFLOPS | 1290 GFLOPS |
| Pixel Rate | 54.24 GPixel/s | 483.8 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 67.8 GTexel/s | 1290 GTexel/s |
Price
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Release Date | Apr 12th, 2021 | Oct 12th, 2022 |
| MSRP | $ | 1599 $ |
Test bench configuration
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | BIZON X5000 More details | BIZON X5500 More details |
| Software | NOTE: 4 GPU on a single PCB ---- 3D Rendering: Nvidia Driver: 461.40 VRay Benchmark: 5 Octane Benchmark: 2020.1.5 Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.28 Demo Blender: 2.90 Luxmark: 3.1 | 3D Rendering: Nvidia Driver: VRay Benchmark: Octane Benchmark: Redshift Benchmark: Blender: Luxmark: |
Recommended hardware
| NVIDIA A16 | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | |
|---|---|---|
| Best GPU workstations | BIZON X5500 | BIZON X5500 |
| Best NVIDIA GPU servers | BIZON X7000 |