NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs AMD FireStream 9350
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1440MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
2144 additional rendering cores
AMD FireStream 9350 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A30 PCIe
+411%
10.32 TFLOPS
FireStream 9350
2.016 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Jun 2010
Tesla Ampere
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
930 MHz
Base Clock
-
1440 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1215 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
2GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
3072bit
Memory Bus
256bit
933.1GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
18
56
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
1440
224
TMUs
72
96
ROPs
32
224
Tensor Cores
-
-
-
-
192 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
24 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
138.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.40 GPixel/s
322.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
10.32 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.32 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
5.161 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
403.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
165W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.1
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA100
GPU Name
Cypress
-
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO GL
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
40 nm
54.2 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
826 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
8.0
CUDA
-
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
