RTX A40 and Radeon Instinct MI250 - video card comparison

RTX A40

Radeon Instinct MI250

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

CDNA 2.0 (2021)

GPU code name

GA102

Aldebaran

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

October 2020

November 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

13312

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

589.7

1,414

Memory type

GDDR6

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

48 GB

128 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

8192 Bit

Memory clock speed

14.5 GB/s

3.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

695.8 GB/s

3,277 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