NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 21 years late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
10752 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Oct 1999
Tesla
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1305 MHz
Base Clock
-
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1812 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
SDR
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
695.8GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
84
SM Count
-
10752
Shading Units
-
336
TMUs
4
112
ROPs
4
336
Tensor Cores
-
84
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
6 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
194.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
584.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
37.42 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
37.42 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
584.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
300W
TDP
Unknown
700 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
NV10
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Celsius
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
220 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
-
