NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 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 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1770MHz vs 1740MHz)

Lower TDP (290W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

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

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

21.75 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +72%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

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

1575 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1770 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

48

SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

6144

Shading Units

10752

192

TMUs

336

96

ROPs

112

192

Tensor Cores

336

48

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA102

GA102-150-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

300W

600 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 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

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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