AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1740MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +657%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Oct 2020

Arctic Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

211.2GB/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)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA102

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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