NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

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

8960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6600 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (2491MHz vs 1740MHz)

Lower TDP (132W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +319%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6600

8.928 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

Radeon RX 6600

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Oct 2021

Tesla

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1626 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

2491 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

10752

Shading Units

1792

336

TMUs

112

ROPs

64

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

159.4 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

279.0 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

17.86 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.928 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

558.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Navi 23

-

GPU Variant

Navi 23 XL (215-130000016)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

132W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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