NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD Radeon E8950
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2020
Sep 2015
Generation
Tesla
Embedded
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1305 MHz
735 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
48GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
192.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
84
-
Shading Units
10752
2048
TMUs
336
128
ROPs
112
32
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
6 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
256.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
Amethyst
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 3.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
5 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
366 mm²
GPU Variant
-
E8950
Board Design
TDP
300W
95W
Suggested PSU
700 W
-
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
None
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