AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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AMD Radeon VII NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1750MHz vs 1740MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 695.8GB/s)

Lower TDP (295W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)

6912 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon VII

13.44 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +178%

37.42 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon VII

772

A40 PCIe +440%

4170

Radeon VII

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Oct 2020

Vega II

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1400 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

48GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1020GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

10752

240

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

112.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

420.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

26.88 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

13.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

3.360 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

GA102

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.1

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

295W

TDP

300W

600 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

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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