NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM RTX 5000 Ada Generation and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2550MHz vs 1740MHz)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (48GB vs 32GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 576.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 5000 Ada Generation +74%

65.28 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

37.42 TFLOPS

Blender

RTX 5000 Ada Generation +44%

6013

A40 PCIe

4170

RTX 5000 Ada Generation

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Oct 2020

Quadro Ada

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1155 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

2550 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

100

SM Count

84

12800

Shading Units

10752

400

TMUs

336

176

ROPs

112

400

Tensor Cores

336

100

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

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Theoretical Performance

448.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

1020 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

65.28 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

65.28 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

1020 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA102

AD102

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

609 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

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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