NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1740MHz vs 1560MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +485%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 OEM

6.39 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

Radeon RX 5600 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2020

Tesla

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1130 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

10752

Shading Units

2048

336

TMUs

128

112

ROPs

64

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.7 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.78 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.390 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

399.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Navi 10

-

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XE

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

125W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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