NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 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 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (70W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1740MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

8448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

6.774 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +452%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

84

2304

Shading Units

10752

72

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

112

72

Tensor Cores

336

18

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

70W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA102

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

200 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

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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