NVIDIA · GPU · LynxBenchAI 26Q3 Index, recorded 2026-10-16
On the LynxBenchAI 26Q3 Index, the NVIDIA A40 ranks 27 of 44 devices overall with a GT of 184.52 (Training 187.96, rank 25; Inference 248.17, rank 27; Compute 95.41, rank 26); overall it scores 0.20x the NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 and 0.41x the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
Ampere architecture · 48 GB GDDR6 · PCIe card (NVIDIA specifications)
Rank among all 44 devices; further right is higher.
| Compared with | Overall | Training | Inference | Compute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 | 0.20x | 0.26x | 0.15x | 0.20x |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | 0.41x | 0.56x | 0.38x | 0.26x |
| Score | Next above | Ratio | Next below | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Training | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 | 0.95x | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | 1.14x |
| Inference | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | 0.87x | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | 1.03x |
| Compute | AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT | 0.85x | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | 1.01x |
| Model | Precision | Sustained |
|---|---|---|
| MobileNetV3 | FP32 | 217.79 |
| MobileNetV3 | BF16 | 150.47 |
| Flan-T5 Small | FP32 | 240.41 |
| Flan-T5 Small | BF16 | 131.34 |
| DistilGPT2 | FP32 | 283.93 |
| DistilGPT2 | BF16 | 162.03 |
| DistilBERT | FP32 | 368.16 |
| DistilBERT | BF16 | 290.50 |
| GraphGPS (Peptides) | FP32 | 88.52 |
| GraphGPS (Peptides) | BF16 | 89.45 |
| Model | Precision | Sustained |
|---|---|---|
| MobileNetV3 | FP16 | 682.36 |
| MobileNetV3 | INT8 | 190.06 |
| Flan-T5 Small | FP16 | 640.51 |
| Flan-T5 Small | INT8 | 286.79 |
| Flan-T5 Small | FP8 | 0.00 |
| DistilGPT2 | FP16 | 523.46 |
| DistilGPT2 | INT8 | 248.53 |
| DistilGPT2 | FP8 | 0.00 |
| DistilBERT | FP16 | 527.07 |
| DistilBERT | INT8 | 277.68 |
| DistilBERT | FP8 | 0.00 |
| GraphGPS (Peptides) | FP16 | 182.67 |
| GraphGPS (Peptides) | INT8 | 98.21 |
| GraphGPS (Peptides) | FP8 | 0.00 |
| Model | Precision | Sustained |
|---|---|---|
| Dense MatMul | FP32 | 209.02 |
| Dense MatMul | FP16 | 144.11 |
| Dense MatMul | BF16 | 146.46 |
| Dense MatMul | FP64 | 3.48 |
| Sparse MatMul | FP32 | 84.89 |
| Sparse MatMul | FP64 | 58.80 |
LynxBenchAI 26Q3 Index · GT = LynxBenchAI Global Score. Every precision result is sustained throughput under a declared, bounded optimisation budget — no collapsed single number below the category level.
Each figure is the first device's overall score divided by the second's.
A LynxBenchAI score is sustained throughput on a fixed catalogue of PyTorch models, measured after a warm-up at a batch size raised until throughput stops improving, so it is what the machine holds under load, not its best instant. Training, Inference and Compute are three separate scores; GT combines them (Training and Inference weigh 0.4 each, Compute 0.2).
Every run uses the stock, publicly released PyTorch stack, so a result is broadly indicative of the out-of-the-box PyTorch experience on that hardware, and so of custom PyTorch models too. It does not run your own model, and it is not a vendor-tuned peak like an MLPerf submission.
Scores compare only within one Index: the 26Q3 Index fixes the models, precisions, correctness thresholds and scoring, and a later Index may change them. Each test is one timed window, the scores have no 0-100 scale, and a precision a device cannot run scores zero rather than being skipped.
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