NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

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NVIDIA A40 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 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 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 608.3GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1770MHz vs 1740MHz)

Lower TDP (290W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +72%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

21.75 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

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

1575 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 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

48

10752

Shading Units

6144

336

TMUs

192

112

ROPs

96

336

Tensor Cores

192

84

RT Cores

48

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

169.9 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

290W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

GA102

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GPU Variant

GA102-150-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

628 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

6.6

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