AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2015
Oct 2020
Generation
Embedded
Tesla
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1812 MHz
Base Clock
—
1305 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1740 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
48GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
695.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
—
Shading Units
768
10752
TMUs
48
336
ROPs
16
112
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
6 MB
SM Count
—
84
Tensor Cores
—
336
RT Cores
—
84
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
194.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
584.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
37.42 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
584.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
37.42 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Saturn
GA102
GPU Variant
Saturn PRO
—
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
75W
300W
Outputs
No outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
8-pin EPS
Suggested PSU
—
700 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.6
CUDA
—
8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.