NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

10656 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +14074%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce 8800 GS

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2008

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 8

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

800 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

96

336

TMUs

48

112

ROPs

12

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G92

-

GPU Variant

G92-150-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

105W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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