NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs ATI FirePro V9800P

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800P to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

9152 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V9800P 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +1275%

37.42 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800P

2.72 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

FirePro V9800P

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Sep 2010

Tesla

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

10752

Shading Units

1600

336

TMUs

80

112

ROPs

32

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Cypress

-

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

225W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.1

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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