NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2020
Dec 2021
Generation
Tesla
GeForce 20
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1305 MHz
1470 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
48GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
336.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
84
34
Shading Units
10752
2176
TMUs
336
136
ROPs
112
48
Tensor Cores
336
272
RT Cores
84
34
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
79.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
224.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
14.36 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
7.181 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
224.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
TU106
Architecture
Ampere
Turing
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
12 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
10.8 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
445 mm²
GPU Variant
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TU106-300-KA-A1
Board Design
TDP
300W
184W
Suggested PSU
700 W
450 W
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 8-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
7.5
Shader Model
6.6
6.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
8,024
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
3,697
3DMark Speed Way
—
1,572
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
60
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
91
Blender
—
1,893
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.