NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

VS

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (2505MHz vs 1740MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 695.8GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe

37.42 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +143%

91.06 TFLOPS

Blender

A40 PCIe

4170

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +173%

11394

A40 PCIe

VS

RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Dec 2022

Tesla

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

142

10752

Shading Units

18176

336

TMUs

568

112

ROPs

192

336

Tensor Cores

568

84

RT Cores

142

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

96 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

481.0 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1423 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

91.06 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.06 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1423 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

300W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

AD102

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GPU Variant

AD102

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

609 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

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.8

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