NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (184W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1740MHz vs 1650MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

8576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

7.181 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +421%

37.42 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

1893

A40 PCIe +120%

4170

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 20

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

34

SM Count

84

2176

Shading Units

10752

136

TMUs

336

48

ROPs

112

272

Tensor Cores

336

34

RT Cores

84

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

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Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GA102

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

445 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

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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