AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

AMD FirePro W9000

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (274W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000

3.994 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +836%

37.42 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Oct 2020

FirePro

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1305 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

84

2048

Shading Units

10752

128

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

274W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA102

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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