NVIDIA A40 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A40 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A40

  • Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 1665 MHz
  • Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 584.6 GTexel/s vs 532.8 GTexel/s
  • Around 5% higher pipelines: 10752 vs 10240
  • Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 48 GB vs 12 GB
  • Around 53% higher memory clock speed: 1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective) vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Boost clock speed 1740 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Texture fill rate 584.6 GTexel/s vs 532.8 GTexel/s
Pipelines 10752 vs 10240
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt vs 350 Watt
Maximum memory size 48 GB vs 12 GB
Memory clock speed 1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective) vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
  • Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1365 MHz vs 1305 MHz
  • Around 8% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 209081 vs 193429
  • Around 73% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1087 vs 627
  • Around 85% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 27124 vs 14665
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 31 May 2021 vs 5 Oct 2020
Core clock speed 1365 MHz vs 1305 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 209081 vs 193429
PassMark - G2D Mark 1087 vs 627
PassMark - G3D Mark 27124 vs 14665

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A40
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
193429
209081
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
627
1087
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
14665
27124
Name NVIDIA A40 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Geekbench - OpenCL 193429 209081
PassMark - G2D Mark 627 1087
PassMark - G3D Mark 14665 27124
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 497.768
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 661.977
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 60.265
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 128.381
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2390.028
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 34770
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 34770
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 19794

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA A40 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Ampere
Code name GA102 GA102
Launch date 5 Oct 2020 31 May 2021
Place in performance rating 54 57
Launch price (MSRP) $1199
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1740 MHz 1665 MHz
Core clock speed 1305 MHz 1365 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1169 GFLOPS (1:32) 532.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 37.42 TFLOPS (1:1) 34.10 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 37.42 TFLOPS 34.10 TFLOPS
Pipelines 10752 10240
Pixel fill rate 194.9 GPixel/s 186.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 584.6 GTexel/s 532.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 350 Watt
Transistor count 28300 million 28300 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches) 285 mm, 11.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 Watt 750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 8-pin EPS 1x 12-pin
Width 112 mm (4.4 inches) 112 mm, 4.4 inches
Height 40 mm, 1.6 inches

API support

DirectX 12.2 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.6 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 48 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 695.8 GB/s 912.4 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective) 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X