NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages
More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)
7168 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1777MHz vs 1740MHz)
Lower TDP (170W vs 300W)