NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +83%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jun 2014

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Volcanic Islands

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

1350 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

512bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

3584

Shading Units

2816

224

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

64

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

580W

450 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.3

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