NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235X OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

10592 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +13264%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 235X OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

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Radeon R5 235X OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Dec 2013

Tesla

Generation

Volcanic Islands

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

900 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

10752

Shading Units

160

336

TMUs

8

112

ROPs

4

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Caicos

-

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

18W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

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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