AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (275W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

8192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +671%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Oct 2020

Volcanic Islands

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

10752

160

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA102

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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