NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

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

Lower TDP (170W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

7168 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +193%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

10752

112

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

112

Tensor Cores

336

28

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA102

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

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

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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