AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 300W)
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
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
A40 PCIe
+7429%
37.42 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Oct 2020
FireStream
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1305 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
84
320
Shading Units
10752
16
TMUs
336
16
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GA102
-
-
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
4.1
Shader Model
6.6
