Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Mar 2012 | May 2020 |
| Generation | Southern Islands | Tesla Ampere |
| Type | Desktop | AI GPU |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1200 MHz | 1215 MHz |
| Base Clock | 1095 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1410 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 40GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | HBM2e |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 5120bit |
| Bandwidth | 153.6GB/s | 1555GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 20 | |
| Shading Units | 1280 | 6912 |
| TMUs | 80 | 432 |
| ROPs | 32 | 160 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 192 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 40 MB |
| SM Count | 108 | |
| Tensor Cores | 432 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 32.00 GPixel/s | 225.6 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 80.00 GTexel/s | 609.1 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.560 TFLOPS | 19.49 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 160.0 GFLOPS | 9.746 TFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 77.97 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Pitcairn | GA100 |
| GPU Variant | Pitcairn XT(215-0828047) | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Ampere |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 7 nm |
| Transistors | 2.8 billion | 54.2 billion |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | 826 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 175W | 400W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | 800 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | None |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | N/A |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | N/A |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | N/A |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | N/A |
| CUDA | 8.0 | |