GeForce 9800 GT vs A40 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 300W)
A40 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
10640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GT
336
A40 PCIe
+11036%
37420
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Oct 2020
GeForce 9
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1305 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
Render Config
14
SM Count
84
112
Shading Units
10752
56
TMUs
336
16
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
GA102
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
