AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Lower TDP (274W vs 300W)
NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)
9216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
A40 PCIe
+1580%
37.42 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Oct 2020
FirePro
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1305 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
84
1536
Shading Units
10752
96
TMUs
336
32
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
300W
600 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GA102
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
