NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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NVIDIA A40 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 495.9GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1815MHz vs 1740MHz)

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +235%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

11.15 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jul 2019

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1650 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

495.9GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

48

10752

Shading Units

3072

336

TMUs

192

112

ROPs

64

336

Tensor Cores

384

84

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

TU104

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GPU Variant

TU104-450-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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