RTX A40 and Radeon Instinct MI210 - video card comparison

RTX A40

Radeon Instinct MI210

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

CDNA 2.0 (2021)

GPU code name

GA102

Aldebaran

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

October 2020

December 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin EPS

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1755 MHz

1700 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

58,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

10752

6656

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

589.7

707.2

Memory type

GDDR6

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

48 GB

64 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

14.5 GB/s

3.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

695.8 GB/s

1,638 GB/s

Display Connectors

3x DisplayPort

No outputs

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.5

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

N/A