NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1785MHz vs 1740MHz)

Lower TDP (125W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (48GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

9344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +644%

37.42 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

822

A40 PCIe +407%

4170

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 16

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

10752

88

TMUs

336

48

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GA102

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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