NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2016
Oct 2020
Generation
GeForce 10
Tesla
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1305 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1740 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1812 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
48GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
695.8GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
15
84
Shading Units
1920
10752
TMUs
120
336
ROPs
64
112
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
6 MB
Tensor Cores
-
336
RT Cores
-
84
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
194.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
584.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
37.42 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
37.42 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
584.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
GA102
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
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Architecture
Pascal
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
16 nm
8 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
300W
Suggested PSU
450 W
700 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
6.1
8.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
6,078
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
2,825
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GTA 5 2160p
48
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GTA 5 1440p
84
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GTA 5 1080p
148
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