NVIDIA A30 vs NVIDIA Tesla P40

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA Tesla P40 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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).

NVIDIA A30

NVIDIA Tesla P40

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A30

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
878.1x more texture fill rate: 322.6 GTexel/s vs 367.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 16 nm
Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 165 Watt vs 250 Watt
2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 127071 vs 62287

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 Apr 2021 vs 13 September 2016
Texture fill rate	322.6 GTexel/s vs 367.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	127071 vs 62287

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla P40

Around 40% higher core clock speed: 1303 MHz vs 930 MHz
Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1531 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Around 7% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 3584
8.2x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1303 MHz vs 930 MHz
Boost clock speed	1531 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Pipelines	3840 vs 3584
Memory clock speed	10008 MHz vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A30
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla P40

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

127071

62287

Name	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA Tesla P40
Geekbench - OpenCL	127071	62287
PassMark - G3D Mark		12267
PassMark - G2D Mark		439
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		300.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		3559.383
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		19.757
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		204.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1214.142
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		9538
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		9538
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3340

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA Tesla P40
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Pascal
Code name	GA100	GP102
Launch date	12 Apr 2021	13 September 2016
Place in performance rating	99	234
Launch price (MSRP)		$5,699
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1440 MHz	1531 MHz
Core clock speed	930 MHz	1303 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.32 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3584	3840
Pixel fill rate	138.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	322.6 GTexel/s	367.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	54200 million	11,800 million
Floating-point performance		11,758 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
OpenCL	3.0
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	24 GB
Memory bandwidth	933.1 GB/s	480.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	3072 bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective	10008 MHz
Memory type	HBM2e	GDDR5X