| Product | NVIDIA® A2 GPU Computing Accelerator - 16GB GDDR6 - PCIe 4.0 x8 - Passive Cooler (w/o CEC) | NVIDIA® A40 GPU Computing Accelerator - 48GB GDDR6 - PCIe 4.0 x16 - Passive Cooling (w/o CEC) | NVIDIA® L40 ADA GPU Computing Accelerator - 48GB GDDR6 - PCIe 4.0 x16 - Passive Cooling |
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| Main Specifications | |||
| Product Series | Nvidia A2 | Nvidia A40 | Nvidia L40 |
| Core Type | NVIDIA TENSOR | NVIDIA TENSOR | NVIDIA TENSOR |
| Core Clock Speed | 1440 MHz (1770 MHz Boost Clock) | ||
| Host Interface | PCI Express 4.0 x8 | PCI Express 4.0 x16 | PCI Express 4.0 x16 |
| GPU Architecture | Ampere | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| Detailed Specifications | |||
| Streaming Processor Cores | 1280 CUDA Cores | 10752 CUDA Cores | |
| NVIDIA Tensor Cores | 40 | Gen 3 | 336 Tensor Cores | |
| NVIDIA RT Cores | 10 | Gen 2 | 84 RT Cores | |
| Memory Clock Speed | 6251 MHz | ||
| Memory Interface | 128-bit | 384-bit | |
| Memory Speeds (GT/s) | 14.5Gbps GDDR6 | ||
| Max Memory Size | 16 GB GDDR6 ECC | 48 GB GDDR6 with error-correcting code (ECC) | 48 GB GDDR6 with ECC |
| Max Memory Bandwidth | 200 GB/s | 696 GB/s | |
| TF32 Tensor Core | 9 TFLOPS | 18 TFLOPS Sparsity | ||
| FP32 | 4.5 TFLOPS | ||
| Peak FP16 Tensor Core | 18 TFLOPS | 36 TFLOPS Sparsity | ||
| Total NVLink Bandwidth | NVIDIA NVLink 112.5 GB/s (bidirectional) PCIe Gen4 16 GB/s | ||
| NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology | 11.1 or later | ||
| vGPU Software Support | NVIDIA vPC/vApps, NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS) | ||
| NVENC | NVDEC | 3x | 3x (Includes AV1 Encode & Decode) | ||
| Secure Boot with Root of Trust | Yes | ||
| NEBS Ready | Yes / Level 3 | ||
| Peak INT4 Performance | 72 TOPS | 144 TOPS Sparsity | ||
| Peak INT8 Performance | 36 TOPS | 72 TOPS Sparsity | ||
| ECC Protection | On by Default | ||
| DisplayPort Connectors | 3x DisplayPort 1.4 A40 is configured for virtualization by default with physical display connectors disabled. The display outputs can be enabled via management software tools. | 4x DP 1.4a | |
| Cooling | Passive | Passive | Passive |
| Dual Slot | Single-slot | 2-slot Low-profile | Yes |
| Dimensions | 6.61” L x 2.71” H | 4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L) | 4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L) |
| Form Factor | Low-Profile PCIe | PCIe | |
| Lithography | Samsung 8nm | ||
| Supplementary Power Connectors | 1x 8-pin CPU (EPS12V) | 1x 16-pin PCIe CEM5 | |
| Max Graphics Card Power (W) | 40-60 W | Configurable | 300W | 300W |
| Action | Select | Select | Select |