AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1740MHz vs 1600MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 483.8GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

13.11 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +185%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Oct 2020

Radeon Pro

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

48GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

10752

256

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GA102

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

300W

750 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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