| Product | NVIDIA® A2 GPU Computing Accelerator - 16GB GDDR6 - PCIe 4.0 x8 - Passive Cooler | NVIDIA® A10 GPU Computing Accelerator - 24GB GDDR6 - PCIe 4.0 x16 - Passive Cooler (w/o CEC) | NVIDIA® A16 GPU Computing Accelerator - 64GB (4x 16GB) GDDR6 - PCIe 4.0 x16 - Passive Cooler | NVIDIA® A30 GPU Computing Accelerator - 24GB HBM2 - PCIe 4.0 x16 - Passive Cooler | NVIDIA® A40 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) |
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| Main Specifications | |||||||
| Product Series | Nvidia A2 | Nvidia A10 | Nvidia A16 | Nvidia A30 | Nvidia A40 | Nvidia L40S | |
| Core Type | NVIDIA TENSOR | NVIDIA TENSOR | NVIDIA TENSOR | NVIDIA TENSOR | NVIDIA TENSOR | NVIDIA TENSOR | |
| Core Clock Speed | 1440 MHz (1770 MHz Boost Clock) | 885 MHz (1695 MHz Boost Clock) | |||||
| Host Interface | PCI Express 4.0 x8 | PCI Express 4.0 x16 64GB/s | 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 | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Ada Lovelace | |
| Product Type | Workstation | ||||||
| Product Line | NVIDIA Professional Graphics | ||||||
| Memory Technology | GDDR6 | ||||||
| Memory Capacity | 48 GB | ||||||
| Detailed Specifications | |||||||
| Streaming Processor Cores | 1280 CUDA Cores | 10752 CUDA Cores | 18,176 | 10752 Shading Units | |||
| NVIDIA Tensor Cores | 40 | Gen 3 | 336 Tensor Cores | 568 | Gen 4 | 336 | |||
| NVIDIA RT Cores | 10 | Gen 2 | 72 RT Cores | 84 RT Cores | 142 | Gen 3 | 84 | ||
| Memory Clock Speed | 6251 MHz | 1563 MHz | 2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective | ||||
| Memory Interface | 128-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit | ||||
| Memory Speeds (GT/s) | 14.5Gbps GDDR6 | ||||||
| Max Memory Size | 16 GB GDDR6 ECC | 24 GB GDDR6 | 4x 16GB GDDR6 with error-correcting code (ECC) | 24 GB HBM2 | 48 GB GDDR6 with error-correcting code (ECC) | 48GB GDDR6 with ECC | |
| Max Memory Bandwidth | 200 GB/s | 600 GB/s | 4x 232GB/s | 933 GB/s | 696 GB/s | 864 GB/s | |
| Peak FP64 | 5.2 teraFLOPS | ||||||
| Peak FP64 Tensor Core | 10.3 teraFLOPS | ||||||
| INT8 Tensor Core | 250 TOPS | 500 TOPS | 330 TOPS | 661 TOPS | 733 teraFLOPS | ||||
| TF32 Tensor Core | 9 TFLOPS | 18 TFLOPS Sparsity | 62.5 teraFLOPS | 125 teraFLOPS | 82 teraFLOPS | 165 teraFLOPS | 183 teraFLOPS | |||
| FP32 | 4.5 TFLOPS | 31.2 teraFLOPS | 10.3 teraFLOPS | 91.6 teraFLOPS | |||
| Peak BFLOAT16 Tensor Core | 125 teraFLOPS | 250 teraFLOPS | 165 teraFLOPS | 330 teraFLOPS | 362.05 teraFLOPS | ||||
| Peak FP16 Tensor Core | 18 TFLOPS | 36 TFLOPS Sparsity | 125 teraFLOPS | 250 teraFLOPS | 165 teraFLOPS | 330 teraFLOPS | 362.05 teraFLOPS | |||
| Peak FP8 Tensor Core | 733 teraFLOPS | ||||||
| Peak INT4 Tensor Core | 500 TOPS | 1,000 TOPS | 661 TOPS | 1321 TOPS | 733 teraFLOPS | ||||
| Total NVLink Bandwidth | Third-gen NVLINK: 200GB/s | NVIDIA NVLink 112.5 GB/s (bidirectional) PCIe Gen4 16 GB/s | Not supported | ||||
| Multi-Instance GPUs | No | ||||||
| NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology | 11.1 or later | Yes | |||||
| NVENC | NVDEC | 3x l 3x (includes AV1 encode and decode) | ||||||
| Secure Boot with Root of Trust | Yes | ||||||
| NEBS Ready | Level 3 | ||||||
| Peak INT4 Performance | 72 TOPS | 144 TOPS Sparsity | ||||||
| Peak INT8 Performance | 36 TOPS | 72 TOPS Sparsity | ||||||
| ECC Protection | 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 | |||||
| Cooling | Passive | Passive | Passive | Passive | Passive | ||
| Dual Slot | Single-slot | Single-slot | Dual-slot | Dual-slot | 2-slot Low-profile | ||
| Dimensions | 6.61” L x 2.71” H | FHFL | 4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L) | 4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L) | 4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L) | ||
| Form Factor | Low-Profile PCIe | ||||||
| Lithography | 8 nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | ||||
| Supplementary Power Connectors | None | 8-pin CPU | 1x 8-pin CPU (EPS12V) | 1x 8-pin CPU (EPS12V) | 1x 16-pin | 1x 8-pin EPS | |
| Max Graphics Card Power (W) | 40-60 W | Configurable | 150W | 250W | 165W | 300W | 350W | 300W |
| 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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