NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

10752 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 300W)

Score

A40 PCIe

VS

Radeon X1700 SE

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Nov 2007

Tesla

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

-

336

TMUs

8

112

ROPs

8

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

RV560

-

GPU Variant

RV560 SE

Ampere

Architecture

R500

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

50W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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