NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Oct 2020
Generation
GeForce 30
Tesla
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1305 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1740 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1812 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
48GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
695.8GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
84
Shading Units
3584
10752
TMUs
112
336
ROPs
64
112
Tensor Cores
112
336
RT Cores
28
84
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
194.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
584.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
37.42 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
37.42 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
584.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
GA102
GPU Variant
GA104
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Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
Samsung
Samsung
Process Size
8 nm
8 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
195W
300W
Suggested PSU
450 W
700 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
8-pin EPS
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
6.7
6.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.