NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 SUPER
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2020
Jan 2026
Generation
Tesla
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1305 MHz
2325 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
2512 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
48GB
18GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR7
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
672.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
84
50
Shading Units
10752
6400
TMUs
336
200
ROPs
112
80
Tensor Cores
336
200
RT Cores
84
50
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
201.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
502.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
32.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
32.15 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
502.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GB205
Architecture
Ampere
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
5 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
31.1 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
263 mm²
GPU Variant
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GB205-400-A1
Board Design
TDP
300W
275W
Suggested PSU
700 W
600 W
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 16-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
1.4
CUDA
8.6
12.0
Shader Model
6.6
6.8
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.