Quadro2 Pro vs RTX A40

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	GA102	NV15 A4
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	5 October 2020 (4 years ago)	22 March 2001 (23 years ago)

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 cores	10752	no data
Core clock speed	1305 MHz	200 MHz
Boost clock speed	1755 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	28,300 million	25 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	589.7	0.8
Floating-point processing power	37.74 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	112	4
TMUs	336	4
Tensor Cores	336	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	84	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	None

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 type	GDDR6	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	48 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1812 MHz	250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	695.8 GB/s	8 GB/s

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 Connectors

3x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	7.0
Shader Model	6.5	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.2
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2	N/A
CUDA	8.6	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	5 October 2020	22 March 2001
Maximum RAM amount	48 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	8 nm	180 nm

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