NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD FirePro D300

VS

NVIDIA A40 PCIe AMD FirePro D300

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 2GB VRAM FirePro D300 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 9 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 162.6GB/s)

9472 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro D300 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +1619%

37.42 TFLOPS

FirePro D300

2.176 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

FirePro D300

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2014

Tesla

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

162.6GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

10752

Shading Units

1280

336

TMUs

80

112

ROPs

32

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 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)

2.176 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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