NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD FirePro W5000

VS

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

9984 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +2853%

37.42 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Aug 2012

Tesla

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

768

336

TMUs

48

112

ROPs

32

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

75W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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