Quadro and RTX A40 - video card comparison

Quadro

RTX A40

Architecture

Celsius (1999−2005)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV10

GA102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

1999

October 2020

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

-

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

135 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

220 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

17 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

-

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.54

589.7

Memory type

SDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

48 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

166 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

2.656 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x VGA

3x DisplayPort

DirectX

7.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.2

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2