RTX A40 and GeForce RTX 4060 - video card comparison

RTX A40

GeForce RTX 4060

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GA102

AD107

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2020

May 2023

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin EPS

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1755 MHz

2460 MHz

Core clock speed

-

1830 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

35,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

10752

3072

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

115 Watt

Texture fill rate

589.7

236.2

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

48 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

14.5 GB/s

17000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

695.8 GB/s

272.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

8.9

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2

1.3