AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

AMD FireStream 9270

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

9952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +3018%

37.42 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Oct 2020

FireStream

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1305 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

84

800

Shading Units

10752

40

TMUs

336

16

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GA102

RV770 XT

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

4.1

Shader Model

6.6

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