NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1740MHz vs 1175MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

9856 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +1676%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

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Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jul 2017

Tesla

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

10752

Shading Units

896

336

TMUs

56

112

ROPs

16

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Polaris 21

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GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

45W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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