FirePro S9150 and RTX A40 - video card comparison

FirePro S9150

RTX A40

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Hawaii

GA102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2014

October 2020

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

-

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

900 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

5,069 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2816

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

235 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

158.4

589.7

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

3x DisplayPort

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2