NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs NVIDIA Tesla P40
We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and a Professional market GPU: 24GB VRAM Tesla P40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 347.1GB/s)
Lower TDP (165W vs 250W)
NVIDIA Tesla P40 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1531MHz vs 1440MHz)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A30 PCIe
10.32 TFLOPS
Tesla P40
+13%
11.76 TFLOPS
Blender
A30 PCIe
+155%
2036
Tesla P40
797
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Sep 2016
Tesla Ampere
Generation
Tesla Pascal
Desktop
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
930 MHz
Base Clock
1303 MHz
1440 MHz
Boost Clock
1531 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory Clock
1808 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
24GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
3072bit
Memory Bus
384bit
933.1GB/s
Bandwidth
347.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
56
SM Count
30
3584
Shading Units
3840
224
TMUs
240
96
ROPs
96
224
Tensor Cores
-
-
-
-
192 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
24 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
138.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
147.0 GPixel/s
322.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
367.4 GTexel/s
10.32 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
183.7 GFLOPS
10.32 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.76 TFLOPS
5.161 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
367.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
165W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GA100
GPU Name
GP102
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
16 nm
54.2 billion
Transistors
11.8 billion
826 mm²
Die Size
471 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 (12_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
8.0
CUDA
6.1
N/A
Shader Model
6.7
