Titan X Pascal and RTX A40 - video card comparison

Titan X Pascal

RTX A40

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP102

GA102

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2016

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1531 MHz

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

1418 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

10,974 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

11,800 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

342.9

589.7

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

10000 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

480.4 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

3x DisplayPort

HDMI

+

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

+

1.2