NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

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NVIDIA A40 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1740MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (200W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +130%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

16.2 TFLOPS

Blender

A40 PCIe +28%

4170

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

3249

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Feb 2022

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

38

10752

Shading Units

4864

336

TMUs

152

112

ROPs

80

336

Tensor Cores

152

84

RT Cores

38

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

200W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GA103S

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GPU Variant

GA103-200-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

628 mm²

Die Size

496 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

6.5

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