NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
10432 additional rendering cores
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A40 PCIe
+7429%
37.42 TFLOPS
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Nov 2007
Tesla
Generation
FireStream
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
802 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
695.8GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
84
SM Count
-
10752
Shading Units
320
336
TMUs
16
112
ROPs
16
336
Tensor Cores
-
84
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
6 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
194.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
584.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
37.42 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
37.42 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
584.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
105W
700 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
RV670
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
55 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
4.1
