FirePro W4100 and RTX A40 - video card comparison

FirePro W4100

RTX A40

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

GA102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

October 2015

October 2020

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

-

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

630 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

645.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

20.16

589.7

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

4x mini-DisplayPort

3x DisplayPort

Dual-link DVI support

1

-

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

AppAcceleration

+

-