NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1440MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +652%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Apr 2018

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

128bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

640

224

TMUs

40

96

ROPs

16

224

Tensor 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

17.14 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Baffin

-

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.4

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