Product Compare

NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2020 Aug 2020
Generation Tesla Radeon Pro Mac
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1305 MHz 1187 MHz
Boost Clock 1740 MHz 1757 MHz
Memory Clock 1812 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 48GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Bus 384bit 128bit
Bandwidth 695.8GB/s 224.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 84
Shading Units 10752 1536
TMUs 336 96
ROPs 112 32
Tensor Cores 336
RT Cores 84
L1 Cache 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 6 MB 2 MB
Compute Units 24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 194.9 GPixel/s 56.22 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 584.6 GTexel/s 168.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 37.42 TFLOPS 10.80 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 37.42 TFLOPS 5.398 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 584.6 GFLOPS 337.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GA102 Navi 14
Architecture Ampere RDNA 1.0
Foundry Samsung TSMC
Process Size 8 nm 7 nm
Transistors 28.3 billion 6.4 billion
Die Size 628 mm² 158 mm²
GPU Variant Navi 14 PRO XL
Board Design
TDP 300W 125W
Suggested PSU 700 W 300 W
Outputs 3x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs
Power Connectors 8-pin EPS None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
CUDA 8.6
Shader Model 6.6 6.5