NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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NVIDIA A40 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1740MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

9600 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +850%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

3.935 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Dec 2016

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

9

10752

Shading Units

1152

336

TMUs

72

112

ROPs

48

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

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Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

120W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GP104

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GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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