NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

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NVIDIA A40 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1740MHz vs 1680MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

8832 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +480%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

6.451 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2020

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

30

10752

Shading Units

1920

336

TMUs

120

112

ROPs

48

336

Tensor Cores

240

84

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

160W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

TU104

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GPU Variant

TU104-150-KC-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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