NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1740MHz vs 1420MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

8448 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +471%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME

6.543 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Mar 2020

Tesla

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

10752

Shading Units

2304

336

TMUs

144

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

45.44 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Polaris 20

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

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

175W

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 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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