NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs NVIDIA A40

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

NVIDIA A40

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1560 MHz vs 1305 MHz
Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 625.0 GTexel/s vs 584.6 GTexel/s
Around 96% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1226 vs 627
2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 29699 vs 14665
Around 6% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 205634 vs 193429

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 Jan 2022 vs 5 Oct 2020
Core clock speed	1560 MHz vs 1305 MHz
Boost clock speed	1860 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Texture fill rate	625.0 GTexel/s vs 584.6 GTexel/s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1226 vs 627
PassMark - G3D Mark	29699 vs 14665
Geekbench - OpenCL	205634 vs 193429

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A40

Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 450 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 48 GB vs 24 GB
Around 38% higher memory clock speed: 1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective) vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt vs 450 Watt
Maximum memory size	48 GB vs 24 GB
Memory clock speed	1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective) vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
GPU 2: NVIDIA A40

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1226

627

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

29699

14665

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

205634

193429

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti	NVIDIA A40
PassMark - G2D Mark	1226	627
PassMark - G3D Mark	29699	14665
Geekbench - OpenCL	205634	193429
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	22133
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	259.78
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	63.049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	177.665
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	3026.082

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti	NVIDIA A40
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Ampere
Code name	GA102	GA102
Launch date	27 Jan 2022	5 Oct 2020
Place in performance rating	27	53
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1860 MHz	1740 MHz
Core clock speed	1560 MHz	1305 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	625.0 GFLOPS (1:64)	1169 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	40.00 TFLOPS (1:1)	37.42 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	40.00 TFLOPS	37.42 TFLOPS
Pipelines	10752	10752
Pixel fill rate	208.3 GPixel/s	194.9 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	625.0 GTexel/s	584.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	450 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	28300 million	28300 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Triple-slot	Dual-slot
Height	61 mm, 2.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	336 mm, 13.2 inches	267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	850 Watt	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	8-pin EPS
Width	140 mm, 5.5 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	24 GB	48 GB
Memory bandwidth	1,008 GB/s	695.8 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit	384 bit
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective	1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6X	GDDR6