Tesla V100 SMX2 and A40 PCIe - video card comparison

Tesla V100 SMX2

A40 PCIe

Architecture

Volta (2017−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GV100

GA102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

June 2017

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

-

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

1370 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

14,029 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

21,100 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5120

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

438.4

589.7

Memory type

HBM2

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

1758 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

900.1 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

-

3x DisplayPort

DirectX

12.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.0

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

-

1.2