Product	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	NVIDIA® L40S ADA GPU Computing Accelerator - 48GB GDDR6 - PCIe 4.0 x16 - Passive Cooling	NVIDIA® RTX A6000 - 48GB GDDR6 - PCIe 4.0 x16 - Active Cooling (4xDP)	NVIDIA® RTX 6000 Ada Generation - 48GB GDDR6 ECC - PCIe 4.0 x16 - Active Cooling (4xDP)
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Main Specifications
Product Series	Nvidia A40	Nvidia L40	Nvidia L40S
Core Type	NVIDIA TENSOR	NVIDIA TENSOR	NVIDIA TENSOR
Host Interface	PCI Express 4.0 x16	PCI Express 4.0 x16	PCI Express 4.0 x16	PCI Express 4.0 x16	PCI Express 4.0 x16
GPU Architecture	Ampere	Ada Lovelace	Ada Lovelace
Product Type				Workstation	Workstation
Product Line				NVIDIA Professional Graphics	NVIDIA Professional Graphics
Memory Technology				GDDR6	GDDR6
Memory Capacity				48 GB	48 GB with ECC
Max Displays					4 Displays
Detailed Specifications
Streaming Processor Cores	10752 CUDA Cores		18,176	10752 Shading Units	18,176
NVIDIA Tensor Cores	336 Tensor Cores		568 | Gen 4	336	568
NVIDIA RT Cores	84 RT Cores		142 | Gen 3	84	142
Memory Clock Speed				2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective
Memory Interface	384-bit			384-bit	384-bit
Memory Speeds (GT/s)	14.5Gbps GDDR6
Max Memory Size	48 GB GDDR6 with error-correcting code (ECC)	48 GB GDDR6 with ECC	48GB GDDR6 with ECC
Max Memory Bandwidth	696 GB/s		864 GB/s
INT8 Tensor Core			733 teraFLOPS
TF32 Tensor Core			183 teraFLOPS
FP32			91.6 teraFLOPS
Peak BFLOAT16 Tensor Core			362.05 teraFLOPS
Peak FP16 Tensor Core			362.05 teraFLOPS
Peak FP8 Tensor Core			733 teraFLOPS
Peak INT4 Tensor Core			733 teraFLOPS
Total NVLink Bandwidth	NVIDIA NVLink 112.5 GB/s (bidirectional) PCIe Gen4 16 GB/s		Not supported
Multi-Instance GPUs			No
Tensor Performance					1457.0 TFLOPS
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology				Yes
vGPU Software Support		NVIDIA vPC/vApps, NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS)
NVENC | NVDEC		3x | 3x (Includes AV1 Encode & Decode)	3x l 3x (includes AV1 encode and decode)
Secure Boot with Root of Trust		Yes	Yes
NEBS Ready		Yes / Level 3	Level 3
Transistor Count				28.3 Billion	76.3 billion
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	4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Cooling	Passive	Passive	Passive
Dual Slot	2-slot Low-profile	Yes
Dimensions	4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L)	4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L)	4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L)	4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L)	4.4" H x 10.5" L
Form Factor		PCIe
Lithography	Samsung 8nm			Samsung 8nm	4 nm NVIDIA Custom Process
Supplementary Power Connectors	1x 8-pin CPU (EPS12V)	1x 16-pin PCIe CEM5	1x 16-pin	1x 8-pin EPS	1x PCIe CEM5 16-pin
Max Graphics Card Power (W)	300W	300W	350W	300W	300W
Processor				Ampere (GA102)	NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
Memory Bandwidth				768 GB/s	960 GB/s
Core Clock Speed				1455 MHz Base Clock 1860 MHz Boost Clock
L2 Cache Size				6 MB
API Support				CUDA 8.5, OpenCL 2.0 Shader Model 6.5, OpenGL 4.6, DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), Vulkan 1.2
Texture Fill Rate				625 GTexel/s
Graphics Resolution				7680 x 4320 x36 bpp at 60 Hz
Peak Double Precision FP64 Performance				1,250 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Single Precision FP32 Performance				38.7 TFLOPS	91.1 TFLOPS
Peak Half Precision FP16 Performance				40.00 TFLOPS (1:1)
Multi-GPU Scalability				NVLINK 2-way low profile (2-slot and 3-slot bridges) connects 2x NVIDIA RTX A6000
NVLink Interconnect				112.5 GB/s (bidirectional)
RT Core Performance					210.6 TFLOPS
VR Ready				Yes
Vulkan API				1.2
DisplayPort Output				4x DisplayPort 1.4a	4x DP 1.4a
Minimum Recommended Power, Single Card (W)				700W	600
Minimum Recommended Power, 2-Way (W)				850	750
Minimum Recommended Power, 3-Way (W)				1000	850
Minimum Recommended Power, 4-Way (W)				1200	1000
Thermal Solution				Active Heatsink	Blower Active Fan
Slot Height				2-Slot	2-Slot
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