FirePro W4000 and RTX A40 - video card comparison

FirePro W4000

RTX A40

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Pitcairn

GA102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2012

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

-

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

825 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

1,267 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.60

589.7

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

3200 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

102.4 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

3x DisplayPort

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2