RTX A40 and RTX 6000 Ada Generation - video card comparison
RTX A40
RTX 6000 Ada Generation
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
GA102
Ada Lovelace
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2020
December 2022
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
1755 MHz
2505 MHz
Core clock speed
-
915 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
28,300 million
76,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
10752
18176
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
589.7
1,423
Memory type
GDDR6
8.9
Maximum RAM amount
48 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 bit Bit
Memory clock speed
14.5 GB/s
20000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
695.8 GB/s
960.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
3x DisplayPort
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
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