RTX A40 and Quadro2 Pro - video card comparison

RTX A40

Quadro2 Pro

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

GA102

NV15 A4

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

October 2020

March 2001

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin EPS

None

Boost clock speed

1755 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

200 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

180 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

25 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

10752

-

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

589.7

0.8

Memory type

GDDR6

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

48 GB

64 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

14.5 GB/s

500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

695.8 GB/s

8 GB/s

Display Connectors

3x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

7.0

CUDA

8.6

-

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

Shader Model

6.5

-

Vulkan

1.2

N/A