GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and A40 PCIe - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

A40 PCIe

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Turing TU102

GA102

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2018

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

1350 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

18,600 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4352

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

270 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

420.2

589.7

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

11 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

352 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

616.0 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

3x DisplayPort

HDMI

+

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

VR Ready

+

-