A40 PCIe and GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 - video card comparison
A40 PCIe
GeForce RTX 4070 AD103
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
GA102
AD103
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2020
March 2024 (recently)
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
1755 MHz
2475 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
28,300 million
45,900 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
10752
5888
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
589.7
455.4
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
48 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
14.5 GB/s
21 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
695.8 GB/s
504.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.6
8.9
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.7
Vulkan
1.2
1.3