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.
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 6% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 196748 vs 185390
| 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 185390 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA A40
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
| Geekbench - OpenCL |
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| Name | NVIDIA A40 | AMD Radeon RX Vega XT |
|---|---|---|
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 185390 | 196748 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA A40 | AMD Radeon RX Vega XT | |
|---|---|---|
Essentials |
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| Architecture | Ampere | GCN 5.0 |
| Code name | GA102 | Vega 10 |
| Launch date | 5 Oct 2020 | 8 August 2017 |
| Place in performance rating | 5 | 1 |
| Type | Desktop | |
Technical info |
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| 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 |
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| Display Connectors | 3x DisplayPort | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| 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 |
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| DirectX | 12.2 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | |
| Vulkan | ||
Memory |
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| 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 |
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