NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)

3544 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +16025%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

Radeon HD 3470

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2008

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR3

3072bit

Memory Bus

64bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

15.20GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

3584

Shading Units

40

224

TMUs

4

96

ROPs

4

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.00 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

RV620

-

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

55 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

4.1

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