NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2475MHz vs 1740MHz)

Lower TDP (200W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 480.0GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

29.15 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +28%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Aug 2024

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 40

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

480.0GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

84

5888

Shading Units

10752

184

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

112

184

Tensor Cores

336

46

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GA102

AD104-2XX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

294 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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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