NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD FirePro W9000

VS

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

AMD FirePro W9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 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 4 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (274W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +836%

37.42 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

3.994 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jun 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

1375 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

2048

336

TMUs

128

112

ROPs

32

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

274W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

352 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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