NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2020
Jan 2021
Generation
Tesla
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1305 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
48GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
360.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
84
28
Shading Units
10752
3584
TMUs
336
112
ROPs
112
48
Tensor Cores
336
112
RT Cores
84
28
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GA106
Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
Samsung
Samsung
Process Size
8 nm
8 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
12 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
276 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GA106-300-A1
Board Design
TDP
300W
170W
Suggested PSU
700 W
450 W
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
8.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
8,747
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
4,097
3DMark Speed Way
—
2,181
Battlefield 5 1080p
—
142
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
44
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
80
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
—
36
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
116
Battlefield 5 2160p
—
55
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
—
56
Battlefield 5 1440p
—
101
GTA 5 2160p
—
50
GTA 5 1440p
—
82
GTA 5 1080p
—
133
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.