NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM

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NVIDIA A40 PCIe NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

10560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +9721%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720 OEM

0.381 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce GT 720 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Oct 2017

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

192

336

TMUs

16

112

ROPs

16

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

6 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.972 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.89 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

381.3 GFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

15.89 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GK107

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

50W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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