NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 608.3GB/s)
5888 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A40 PCIe
+130%
37.42 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
16.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Oct 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
1188 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6X
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
695.8GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/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
-
-
-
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
225W
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
GA104
-
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
8 nm
Process Size
8 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
392 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
