Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2013 Oct 2020
Generation Volcanic Islands Tesla
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1812 MHz
Base Clock 1305 MHz
Boost Clock 1740 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 48GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 512bit 384bit
Bandwidth 320.0GB/s 695.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 44
Shading Units 2816 10752
TMUs 176 336
ROPs 64 112
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 6 MB
SM Count 84
Tensor Cores 336
RT Cores 84
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 64.00 GPixel/s 194.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 176.0 GTexel/s 584.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 5.632 TFLOPS 37.42 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 704.0 GFLOPS 584.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 37.42 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Hawaii GA102
GPU Variant Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture GCN 2.0 Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Process Size 28 nm 8 nm
Transistors 6.2 billion 28.3 billion
Die Size 438 mm² 628 mm²
Board Design
TDP 290W 300W
Suggested PSU 600 W 700 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2.170 1.3
Shader Model 6.5 6.6
CUDA 8.6