NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 4 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

10560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +7744%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jun 2008

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

24

10752

Shading Units

192

336

TMUs

64

112

ROPs

28

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

182W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GT200

-

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

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

1.3

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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