NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA A40 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1740MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

7936 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +517%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

Blender

A40 PCIe +666%

4170

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

544

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jun 2015

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

2816

336

TMUs

176

112

ROPs

96

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GM200

-

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

8 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

601 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

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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