GeForce GTX 1050 and RTX A40 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1050

RTX A40

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N17P-G1

GA102

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2016

October 2020

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)

300 Watt

-

Supplementary power connectors

None

8-pin EPS

SLI

-

-

SLI options

-

-

Boost clock speed

1392 MHz

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

1290 MHz

-

CUDA cores

640

-

Floating-point performance

1,862 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

3,300 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

300 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

97 °C

-

Texture fill rate

58.20

589.7

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

7008 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI

3x DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

2.2

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

Ansel

+

-

GameStream

+

-

GPU Boost

3.0

-

VR Ready

+

-