NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1740MHz vs 1683MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

8832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070

6.463 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +478%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

84

1920

Shading Units

10752

120

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA102

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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