NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1740MHz vs 1600MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 483.8GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +185%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

13.11 TFLOPS

Blender

A40 PCIe +461%

4170

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

742

A40 PCIe

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jun 2017

Tesla

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

4096

336

TMUs

256

112

ROPs

64

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

300W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Vega 10

-

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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