NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs AMD FirePro D500

VS

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +363%

10.32 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2014

Tesla Ampere

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

384bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1536

224

TMUs

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

274W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (11_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

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