NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

10352 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +5935%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

0.62 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

Radeon HD 5690

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Feb 2011

Tesla

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

10752

Shading Units

400

336

TMUs

20

112

ROPs

8

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Redwood

-

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

64W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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