GeForce GT 1030 and RTX A40 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 1030

RTX A40

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N17P-G1

GA102

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2017

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1670 MHz

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

1228 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

1,127 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,800 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

35.23

589.7

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI

3x DisplayPort

HDMI

+

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

VR Ready

+

-