NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

7936 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +564%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jun 2014

Tesla

Generation

Volcanic 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

1350 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

2816

336

TMUs

176

112

ROPs

64

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

580W

700 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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