Tesla P6 and RTX A40 - video card comparison
Tesla P6
RTX A40
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GP104
GA102
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
October 2020
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
1506 MHz
1755 MHz
Core clock speed
1012 MHz
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Floating-point performance
6,169 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
10752
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
192.8
589.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
14.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
192.3 GB/s
695.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
3x DisplayPort
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
6.1
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2