NVIDIA A40 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A40 and AMD Radeon RX Vega XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA A40

AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A40

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 1630 MHz
1400.9x more texture fill rate: 584.6 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
2.6x more pipelines: 10752 vs 4096
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 48 GB vs 8 GB

Launch date	5 Oct 2020 vs 8 August 2017
Boost clock speed	1740 MHz vs 1630 MHz
Texture fill rate	584.6 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Pipelines	10752 vs 4096
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	48 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Around 15% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1305 MHz
Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 300 Watt
Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective)
Around 5% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 196748 vs 186820

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1305 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz vs 1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	196748 vs 186820

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A40
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

186820

196748

Name	NVIDIA A40	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
Geekbench - OpenCL	186820	196748
PassMark - G2D Mark	589
PassMark - G3D Mark	13371

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA A40	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.0
Code name	GA102	Vega 10
Launch date	5 Oct 2020	8 August 2017
Place in performance rating	60	35
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1740 MHz	1630 MHz
Core clock speed	1305 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1169 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	37.42 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	37.42 TFLOPS
Pipelines	10752	4096
Pixel fill rate	194.9 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	584.6 GTexel/s	417.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	28300 million
Floating-point performance		13,353 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	3x DisplayPort	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm (10.5 inches)	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	2x 8-pin
Width	112 mm (4.4 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.2
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	48 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	695.8 GB/s	483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective)	1890 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2