NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +324%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Mar 2013

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Radeon Sky

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

1200 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1280

224

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

212 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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