NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1740MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

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

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

16.2 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +130%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

38

SM Count

84

4864

Shading Units

10752

152

TMUs

336

80

ROPs

112

152

Tensor Cores

336

38

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

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Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA102

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

392 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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