NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

VS

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

AMD Radeon RX 560X

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1740MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

9728 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +1333%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

2.611 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Apr 2018

Tesla

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

1024

336

TMUs

64

112

ROPs

16

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

20.40 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

75W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Polaris 21

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

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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