AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2017
Oct 2020
Generation
Vega
Tesla
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1156 MHz
1305 MHz
Boost Clock
1471 MHz
1740 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
1812 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
48GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR6
Memory Bus
2048bit
384bit
Bandwidth
409.6GB/s
695.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
56
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Shading Units
3584
10752
TMUs
224
336
ROPs
64
112
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
6 MB
SM Count
—
84
Tensor Cores
—
336
RT Cores
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84
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
94.14 GPixel/s
194.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
329.5 GTexel/s
584.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
21.09 TFLOPS
37.42 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.54 TFLOPS
37.42 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
659.0 GFLOPS
584.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Vega 10
GA102
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
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Architecture
GCN 5.0
Ampere
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Samsung
Process Size
14 nm
8 nm
Transistors
12.5 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
495 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
210W
300W
Suggested PSU
550 W
700 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
CUDA
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8.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
6,783
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,310
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.