NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD FirePro S9170
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2020
Jul 2015
Generation
Tesla
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1305 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
48GB
32GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
512bit
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
84
-
Shading Units
10752
2816
TMUs
336
176
ROPs
112
64
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
6 MB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
44
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
59.52 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
163.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
5.238 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
2.619 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
Hawaii
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
438 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Hawaii XT GL
Board Design
TDP
300W
275W
Suggested PSU
700 W
600 W
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.6
6.3