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NVIDIA RTX A400

The NVIDIA RTX A400 is a graphics card released on April 16, 2024, built on the Ampere architecture. It has 768 shading units and a boost clock of 1.76 GHz. It scores 5,980 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0 and CUDA compute capability 8.6.

AmpereGA107

6/10 key specs recorded · 39 facts

Depth: 27 recorded fields, 10 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 6 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)

Shading units

768cores

Memory

n/a

GDDR6

Boost clock

1.76 GHz

727 MHz base

Board power

n/a

Performance

The NVIDIA RTX A400 scores 5,980 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 83% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #461), measured across 714 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 899.

PassMark G3D Mark

5,980

Rank #461
Faster than 83% of 2,658 GPUs
714 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 87 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 72.9% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 32 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 68.4% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 37 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 64% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 27 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 63.1% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 2,550 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 69.7% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA RTX A400 averages DirectX 9 87 fps, DirectX 10 32 fps, DirectX 11 37 fps, DirectX 12 27 fps and GPU Compute 2,550 ops/s, across 714 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

First benchmarked 2024-08-19

Samples 714

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

Not to be confused with

This page covers the NVIDIA RTX A400 specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA RTX A4000, NVIDIA RTX A4000 Laptop GPU, NVIDIA RTX A4000H, NVIDIA RTX A4000 Mobile, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

Architecture Ampere

Codename GA107

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA RTX A400 is based on the Ampere architecture and uses the GA107 graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 768

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 24

Render output units (ROPs) 16

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA RTX A400 has 768 shading units, 24 texture mapping units and 16 render output units.

The NVIDIA RTX A400 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA RTX A400. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA RTX A400.

Clock speeds

Base clock 727 MHz

Boost clock 1.76 GHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA RTX A400 runs at a base clock of 727 MHz and boosts to 1.76 GHz.

Memory

Size Not recorded

Type GDDR6

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

Market

Launched April 16, 2024

Launch price $135

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series RTX

The NVIDIA RTX A400 was released on April 16, 2024 and launched at a price of $135.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 5,980

PassMark G2D 899

Rank #461

Samples 714

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA RTX A400 supports OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0 and CUDA compute capability 8.6.

OpenGL 4.6

Vulkan 1.3

OpenCL 3.0

CUDA compute capability 8.6

Features

The NVIDIA RTX A400 has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Compute and AI

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 8.6

Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.

Not listed (2)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA RTX A400 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA RTX A400 supports CUDA (Compute capability 8.6) under Compute and AI.

Media engine

The NVIDIA RTX A400 provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9. It does not support hardware encode for AV1.

NVIDIA NVENC encoder 7th Generation Encoder engines: 1NVIDIA's dedicated video-encoding engine, used by streaming and capture software; newer generations encode more efficiently.

NVIDIA NVDEC decoder 5th Generation Decoder engines: 1NVIDIA's dedicated video-decoding engine; newer generations support more codecs and formats.

Hardware video codec support of the NVIDIA RTX A400
Codec	Encode	Decode
H.264 (AVC)	Supported4:4:4: Yes	Supported
HEVC (H.265)	Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: Yes; 8K: Yes	Supported4:4:4: Yes
AV1	Not supported	Supported
VP9	Not stated by the vendor	Supported

supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor

Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA RTX A400: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (7th Generation, encoder engines: 1) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (5th Generation, decoder engines: 1).

Frequently asked questions

How fast is the NVIDIA RTX A400?

The NVIDIA RTX A400 scores 5,980 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 83% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #461. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 27 fps.

Does the NVIDIA RTX A400 support AV1 encoding?

No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA RTX A400, although it can decode AV1 in hardware.

What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA RTX A400?

The NVIDIA RTX A400 has CUDA compute capability 8.6.

When was the NVIDIA RTX A400 released and how much did it cost at launch?

The NVIDIA RTX A400 was released on April 16, 2024 and launched at a price of $135.

Corrections to this record

After an audit, 1 empty field was filled from sources. Each change is listed with its old value, new value, rule and sources.

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Architecture: Ampere (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip GA107 -> Ampere. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).

The audit log is public: all changes for this GPU, the corrections overview and the method.