NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1740MHz vs 1226MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +751%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT

4.394 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

Radeon RX 560 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Mar 2019

Tesla

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1074 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1226 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

10752

Shading Units

1792

336

TMUs

112

ROPs

32

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.23 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.3 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.394 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.394 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 LE1

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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