NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 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 9 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

9216 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +1216%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2012

Tesla

Generation

Southern Islands

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

1250 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

1536

336

TMUs

96

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

29.60 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

88.80 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.842 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

710.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

185W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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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