NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD Radeon RX 470D
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2020
Oct 2016
Generation
Tesla
Arctic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1305 MHz
926 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1206 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
48GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
211.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
84
-
Shading Units
10752
1792
TMUs
336
112
ROPs
112
32
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
6 MB
2 MB
Compute Units
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
38.59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
135.1 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
4.322 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
4.322 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
270.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
Ellesmere
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 4.0
Foundry
Samsung
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
8 nm
14 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
232 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Polaris 10 PROD
Board Design
TDP
300W
120W
Suggested PSU
700 W
300 W
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.6
6.4