RTX A40 vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking32not rated
Place by popularity92not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation52.67no data
Power efficiency14.45no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA104GA102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date31 May 2021 (3 years ago)5 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores614410752
Core clock speed1575 MHz1305 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHz1755 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)290 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate339.8589.7
Floating-point processing power21.75 TFLOPS37.74 TFLOPS
ROPs96112
TMUs192336
Tensor Cores192336
Ray Tracing Cores4884

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pin8-pin EPS

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6XGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB48 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1188 MHz1812 MHz
Memory bandwidth608.3 GB/s695.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort3x DisplayPort
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.0
Vulkan1.21.2
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 May 2021 5 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 48 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 290 Watt 300 Watt

RTX 3070 Ti has an age advantage of 7 months, and 3.4% lower power consumption.

RTX A40, on the other hand, has a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and RTX A40. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is a desktop card while RTX A40 is a workstation one.


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