GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs A40 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Lower TDP (90W vs 300W)
A40 PCIe 's Advantages
More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
8704 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
7127
A40 PCIe
+425%
37420
Blender
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
1528
A40 PCIe
+161%
3990
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Oct 2020
GeForce 30
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
1305 MHz
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
84
2048
Shading Units
10752
64
TMUs
336
32
ROPs
112
64
Tensor Cores
336
16
RT Cores
84
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
300W
250 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GA102
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
8 nm
Process Size
8 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
