Radeon RX 6500 XT vs A40 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 62% (2815MHz vs 1740MHz)
Lower TDP (107W vs 300W)
A40 PCIe 's Advantages
More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)
9728 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6500 XT
5765
A40 PCIe
+549%
37420
Blender
Radeon RX 6500 XT
571
A40 PCIe
+598%
3990
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Oct 2020
Navi II
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2310 MHz
Base Clock
1305 MHz
2815 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
2248 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
143.9GB/s
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
84
1024
Shading Units
10752
64
TMUs
336
32
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
16
RT Cores
84
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
90.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
180.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
11.53 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
5.765 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
360.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
107W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
Navi 24
GPU Name
GA102
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
GPU Variant
-
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
6 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.4 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
107 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.6