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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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Featured GPU benchmarks:

Benchmarks

Deep Learning GPU Benchmarks 2023–2024 [Updated]

Resnet50 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1071
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
2179
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
2922
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
8561
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
16797

Resnet50 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Resnet50 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
596
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
1001
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1625
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
3849
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
7557

Resnet50 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Resnet152 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
491
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
930
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1029
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
3557
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
6809

Resnet152 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Resnet152 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
223
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
409
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
434
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
1498
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
2851

Resnet152 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Inception V3 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
715
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
1283
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1720
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
5218
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
10122

Inception V3 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Inception V3 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
399
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
658
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1267
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
2568
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
5058

Inception V3 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Inception V4 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
383
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
616
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1022
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
2377
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
4532

Inception V4 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Inception V4 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
156
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
290
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
319
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
1031
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
1950

Inception V4 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

VGG16 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
577
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
1249
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1004
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
4989
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
10733

VGG16 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

VGG16 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
341
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
529
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
1077
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
2215
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
4278

VGG16 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Googlenet (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Googlenet (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

3D, GPU Rendering Benchmarks 2023–2024 [Updated]

V-Ray

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
2185
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
1555
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Octane

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
769
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
498
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Redshift

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
2.3
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Blender

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
6010.36
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
3788
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Luxmark

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
95123
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Unreal Engine

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
47.6
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

RELION Cryo-EM Benchmarks 2023-2024 [Updated]

Total run time

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
165.9
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
178.9
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
57.1
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
50.3
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

BERT LARGE Training, Inference Benchmark 2023-2024 [Updated]

Training Time (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Performance (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Training Time (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Performance (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Llama3 70B Inference Benchmark 2024 [Updated]

Eval rate

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
2 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3090
n/a
NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
n/a

Technical Specifications

Board Design

NVIDIA RTX 3090 NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
Length 336 mm 267 mm
Outputs 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
Power Connectors 1x 12-pin 8-pin EPS
Slot width Triple-slot Dual-slot
TDP 350 W 250 W

Clock Speeds

NVIDIA RTX 3090 NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
Boost Clock 1695 MHz 1410 MHz
GPU Clock 1395 MHz 765 MHz
Memory Clock 19500 MHz 2400 MHz

Graphics Card

NVIDIA RTX 3090 NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Generation GeForce 30 Tesla (Axx)

Graphics Features

NVIDIA RTX 3090 NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.6
CUDA 8.6 8.0

Graphics Processor

NVIDIA RTX 3090 NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
Architecture Ampere Ampere
Die Size 628 mm2 826 mm2
GPU Name GA102-300-A1 GA100
Process Size 8 nm 7 nm
Transistors 28300 million 54200 million

Memory

NVIDIA RTX 3090 NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
Bandwidth 936.2 GB/s 1555 GB/s
Memory Bus 384 bit 5120 bit
Memory Size 24 GB 40 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X HBM2e

Render Config

NVIDIA RTX 3090 NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
ROPs 112 160
RT Cores 82
Shading Units/ CUDA Cores 10496 6912
TMUs 328 432
Tensor Cores 328 432

Theoretical Performance

NVIDIA RTX 3090 NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
FP16 (half) performance 35.58 TFLOPS 77.97 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) performance 35.58 TFLOPS 19.49 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 556 GFLOPS 9746 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate 189.8 GPixel/s 225.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 556 GTexel/s 609.1 GTexel/s

Price

NVIDIA RTX 3090 NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
MSRP 1499 $ $
Release Date Sep 1st, 2020 Jun 22nd, 2020

Test bench configuration

NVIDIA RTX 3090 NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
Hardware BIZON X5000 More details BIZON X5000 More details
Software 3D Rendering:
Nvidia Driver: 456.38
VRay Benchmark: 5
Octane Benchmark: 2020.1.5
Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.28 Demo
Blender: 2.90
Luxmark: 3.1
3D Rendering:
Nvidia Driver: 461.09
VRay Benchmark: 5
Octane Benchmark: 2020.1.5
Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.28 Demo
Blender: 2.90
Luxmark: 3.1

Recommended hardware

NVIDIA RTX 3090 NVIDIA A100 40 GB (PCIe)
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