Quadro GV100 and A40 PCIe - video card comparison

Quadro GV100

A40 PCIe

Architecture

Volta (2017−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GV100

GA102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

March 2018

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1627 MHz

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

1132 MHz

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Floating-point performance

14,817 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

21,100 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5120

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

520.6

589.7

Memory type

HBM2

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

32 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

1696 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

868.4 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort

3x DisplayPort

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.0

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2