NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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NVIDIA A40 PCIe NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

7168 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1777MHz vs 1740MHz)

Lower TDP (170W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +193%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

12.74 TFLOPS

Blender

A40 PCIe +60%

4170

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

2596

A40 PCIe

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Oct 2022

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

3584

336

TMUs

112

ROPs

48

336

Tensor Cores

112

84

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA106

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GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

12 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

170W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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