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Main Specifications
Product Series AMD InstinctAMD InstinctNvidia A2Nvidia A10Nvidia A16Nvidia A30Nvidia A40Nvidia L40S
Core Type NVIDIA TENSORNVIDIA TENSORNVIDIA TENSORNVIDIA TENSORNVIDIA TENSORNVIDIA TENSOR
Core Clock Speed 1502 MHz1700 MHz1440 MHz (1770 MHz Boost Clock)885 MHz (1695 MHz Boost Clock)
Host Interface PCI Express 4.0 x16PCI Express 4.0 x16PCI Express 4.0 x8PCI Express 4.0 x16 64GB/sPCI Express 4.0 x16PCI Express 4.0 x16PCI Express 4.0 x16PCI Express 4.0 x16PCI Express 4.0 x16
GPU Architecture CDNACDNA2AmpereAmpereAmpereAmpereAmpereAda Lovelace
Product Type Workstation
Product Line NVIDIA Professional Graphics
Memory Technology GDDR6
Memory Capacity 48 GB
Detailed Specifications
Streaming Processor Cores 7,68066561280 CUDA Cores10752 CUDA Cores18,17610752 Shading Units
Compute Units 120104
NVIDIA Tensor Cores 40 | Gen 3336 Tensor Cores568 | Gen 4336
NVIDIA RT Cores 10 | Gen 272 RT Cores84 RT Cores142 | Gen 384
Memory Clock Speed 1.2 GHz1.6 GHz6251 MHz1563 MHz2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective
Memory Interface 4096-bit4096-bit128-bit384-bit384-bit
Memory Speeds (GT/s) 14.5Gbps GDDR6
Max Memory Size 32 GB HBM264 GB HBM2e16 GB GDDR6 ECC24 GB GDDR64x 16GB GDDR6 with error-correcting code (ECC)24 GB HBM248 GB GDDR6 with error-correcting code (ECC)48GB GDDR6 with ECC
Max Memory Bandwidth Up to 1228.8 GB/sUp to 1638.4 GB/s200 GB/s600 GB/s4x 232GB/s933 GB/s696 GB/s864 GB/s
Infinity Fabric™ Links 33
Peak Infinity Fabric™ Link Bandwidth 92 GB/s100 GB/s
Peak FP64 5.2 teraFLOPS
Peak FP64 Tensor Core 10.3 teraFLOPS
Peak FP32 22.6 TFLOPs4.5 TFLOPS31.2 teraFLOPS10.3 teraFLOPS91.6 teraFLOPS
Peak TF32 Tensor Core 9 TFLOPS | 18 TFLOPS Sparsity62.5 teraFLOPS | 125 teraFLOPS82 teraFLOPS | 165 teraFLOPS183 teraFLOPS
Peak BFLOAT16 Tensor Core 125 teraFLOPS | 250 teraFLOPS165 teraFLOPS | 330 teraFLOPS362.05 teraFLOPS
Peak FP16 Tensor Core 18 TFLOPS | 36 TFLOPS Sparsity125 teraFLOPS | 250 teraFLOPS165 teraFLOPS | 330 teraFLOPS362.05 teraFLOPS
Peak FP8 Tensor Core 733 teraFLOPS
Peak INT8 Tensor Core 250 TOPS | 500 TOPS330 TOPS | 661 TOPS733 teraFLOPS
Peak INT4 Tensor Core 500 TOPS | 1,000 TOPS661 TOPS | 1321 TOPS733 teraFLOPS
NVIDIA NVLink™ Interconnect Bandwidth Third-gen NVLINK: 200GB/sNVIDIA NVLink 112.5 GB/s (bidirectional) PCIe Gen4 16 GB/sNot supported
Multi-Instance GPUs No
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology 11.1 or laterYes
NVENC | NVDEC 3x l 3x (includes AV1 encode and decode)
Secure Boot with Root of Trust Yes
NEBS Ready Level 3
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 184.6 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision Matrix (FP32) Performance 46.1 TFLOPs45.3 TFLOPs
Peak Double Precision Matrix (FP64) Performance 45.3 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 23.1 TFLOPs
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 11.5 TFLOPs22.6 TFLOPs
Peak INT4 Performance 184.6 TOPs181 TOPs72 TOPS | 144 TOPS Sparsity
Peak INT8 Performance 184.6 TOPs36 TOPS | 72 TOPS Sparsity
Peak bfloat16 92.3 TFLOPs181 TFLOPs
ECC Protection Yes (Full-Chip)On by Default
Transistor Count 28.3 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 DisplayPort 1.4a
OS Support Linux x86_64Linux x86_64
Cooling PassivePassivePassivePassivePassivePassivePassive
Dual Slot yesyesSingle-slotSingle-slotDual-slotDual-slot2-slot Low-profile
Dimensions 10.5" (267 mm) Board Length10.5" (267 mm) Board Length6.61” L x 2.71” HFHFL4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L)4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L)4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L)
Form Factor Full HeightLow-Profile PCIe
Lithography TSMC 7nm FinFET8 nmSamsung 8nmSamsung 8nm
Supplementary Power Connectors 2x PCIe 8-pin connectors1x8 pin 12V EPSNone8-pin CPU1x 8-pin CPU (EPS12V)1x 8-pin CPU (EPS12V)1x 16-pin1x 8-pin EPS
Max Graphics Card Power (W) 300W300W Peak40-60 W | Configurable150W250W165W300W350W300W
Processor Ampere (GA102)
Memory Bandwidth 768 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
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)
VR Ready Yes
Vulkan API 1.2
DisplayPort Output 4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Minimum Recommended Power, Single Card (W) 700W
Minimum Recommended Power, 2-Way (W) 850
Minimum Recommended Power, 3-Way (W) 1000
Minimum Recommended Power, 4-Way (W) 1200
Thermal Solution Active Heatsink
Slot Height 2-Slot
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