NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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NVIDIA RTX A6000 NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared a Professional market GPU: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and a Desktop platform GPU: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1800MHz vs 1740MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 695.8GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A6000 +3%

38.71 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

37.42 TFLOPS

Blender

RTX A6000 +33%

5549

A40 PCIe

4170

RTX A6000

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Oct 2020

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Tesla

Professional

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1800 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

10752

336

TMUs

336

112

ROPs

112

336

Tensor Cores

336

84

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

201.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

38.71 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

604.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA102

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

300W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

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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