NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA Quadro GP100
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2020
Oct 2016
Generation
Tesla
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1305 MHz
1304 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1442 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
715 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
48GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
HBM2
Memory Bus
384bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
732.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
84
56
Shading Units
10752
3584
TMUs
336
224
ROPs
112
96
Tensor Cores
336
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RT Cores
84
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
24 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
138.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
323.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
20.67 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
10.34 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
5.168 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GP100
Architecture
Ampere
Pascal
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
16 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
15.3 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
610 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
235W
Suggested PSU
700 W
550 W
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
6.0
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
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7,998
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
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4,076
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.