NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1740MHz vs 1683MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

8832 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +478%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

6.463 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jun 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

1683 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

1920

336

TMUs

120

112

ROPs

64

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GP104

-

GPU Variant

GP104-200-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

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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