AMD Radeon Sky 900 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 900

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1440MHz vs 950MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 900

3.405 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +203%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

Radeon Sky

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

950 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

1792

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

165W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA100

Orthrus

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

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