NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB vs NVIDIA A40

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB and NVIDIA A40 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB

NVIDIA A40

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 1470 MHz vs 1305 MHz
Around 63% lower typical power consumption: 184 Watt vs 300 Watt
Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 841 vs 627
Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15914 vs 14665

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Dec 2021 vs 5 Oct 2020
Core clock speed	1470 MHz vs 1305 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	184 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	841 vs 627
PassMark - G3D Mark	15914 vs 14665

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A40

Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 1650 MHz
2.6x more texture fill rate: 584.6 GTexel/s vs 224.4 GTexel/s
4.9x more pipelines: 10752 vs 2176
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 48 GB vs 12 GB
Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective) vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Boost clock speed	1740 MHz vs 1650 MHz
Texture fill rate	584.6 GTexel/s vs 224.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines	10752 vs 2176
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 12 nm
Maximum memory size	48 GB vs 12 GB
Memory clock speed	1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective) vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA A40

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

841

627

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

15914

14665

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB	NVIDIA A40
PassMark - G2D Mark	841	627
PassMark - G3D Mark	15914	14665
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	8026
Geekbench - OpenCL		193736

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB	NVIDIA A40
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Ampere
Code name	TU106	GA102
Launch date	7 Dec 2021	5 Oct 2020
Place in performance rating	52	53
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1650 MHz	1740 MHz
Core clock speed	1470 MHz	1305 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	224.4 GFLOPS (1:32)	1169 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	14.36 TFLOPS (2:1)	37.42 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.181 TFLOPS	37.42 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2176	10752
Pixel fill rate	79.20 GPixel/s	194.9 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	224.4 GTexel/s	584.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	184 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	10800 million	28300 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C	3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
Height	35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	229 mm, 9 inches	267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	8-pin EPS
Width	113 mm, 4.4 inches	112 mm (4.4 inches)
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.2
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	48 GB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	695.8 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	384 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6