NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (48GB vs 6GB)

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

6912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1852MHz vs 1740MHz)

Lower TDP (185W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +163%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

14.22 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2021

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 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

3840

336

TMUs

120

112

ROPs

48

336

Tensor Cores

120

84

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

185W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA106

-

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

12 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

276 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

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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