AMD Radeon Instinct MI455X vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

GPU Specs Compare

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NVIDIA A40 PCIe

NVIDIA 2020-10

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jul 2026
Oct 2020
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Tesla
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 6.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1000 MHz
1305 MHz
Boost Clock
2400 MHz
1740 MHz
Memory Clock
1900 MHz
1812 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
432GB
48GB
Memory Type
HBM4
GDDR6
Memory Bus
24576bit
384bit
Bandwidth
23.3TB/s
695.8GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
256
-
Shading Units
32768
10752
TMUs
1024
336
ROPs
0
112
L1 Cache
32 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
192 MB
6 MB
SM Count
-
84
Tensor Cores
-
336
RT Cores
-
84

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
194.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
2457.6 GTexel/s
584.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
157.3 TFLOPS
37.42 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
157.3 TFLOPS
37.42 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.458 TFLOPS
584.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
MI450 256CU
GA102
Architecture
CDNA 5.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
2 nm
8 nm
Transistors
320 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
Unknown
628 mm²

Board Design

TDP
2300W
300W
Suggested PSU
2700 W
700 W
Outputs
No outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

DirectX
N/A
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
N/A
6.6
CUDA
-
8.6