NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA RTX A5500
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2020
Mar 2022
Generation
Tesla
Quadro Ampere
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1305 MHz
1080 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1665 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
48GB
24GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
84
80
Shading Units
10752
10240
TMUs
336
320
ROPs
112
96
Tensor Cores
336
320
RT Cores
84
80
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
159.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
532.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
34.10 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
34.10 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
532.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GA102
Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
Samsung
Samsung
Process Size
8 nm
8 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
230W
Suggested PSU
700 W
550 W
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
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
8.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
📊 Benchmark
OctaneBench
-
596
Blender
-
4,316