RTX 4500 Ada Generation vs A40 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM RTX 4500 Ada Generation and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX 4500 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 48% (2580MHz vs 1740MHz)
Lower TDP (210W vs 300W)
A40 PCIe 's Advantages
More VRAM (48GB vs 24GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
+5%
39630
A40 PCIe
37420
Blender
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
+39%
5565
A40 PCIe
3990
Graphics Card
Aug 2023
Release Date
Oct 2020
Quadro Ada
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2070 MHz
Base Clock
1305 MHz
2580 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
Render Config
60
SM Count
84
7680
Shading Units
10752
240
TMUs
336
80
ROPs
112
240
Tensor Cores
336
60
RT Cores
84
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
206.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
619.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
39.63 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
39.63 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
619.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
210W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
AD103
GPU Name
GA102
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
45.9 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
379 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
8.9
CUDA
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
