NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

10752 additional rendering cores

Score

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Nov 2004

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

-

336

TMUs

12

112

ROPs

8

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

NV41

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

130 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

Unknown

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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