NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1740MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (220W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +84%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

20.31 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Sep 2020

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

5888

336

TMUs

184

112

ROPs

96

336

Tensor Cores

184

84

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA104

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GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

220W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 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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