GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs A40 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 300W)
A40 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1740MHz vs 1379MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
10368 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
A40 PCIe
+3433%
37420
Blender
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
96
A40 PCIe
+4056%
3990
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Oct 2020
GeForce 10
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
1305 MHz
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
48GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
Render Config
3
SM Count
84
384
Shading Units
10752
24
TMUs
336
16
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
300W
200 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GA102
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
