RTX A40 and Radeon Pro W6800 - video card comparison

RTX A40

Radeon Pro W6800

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GA102

Navi 21

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

October 2020

June 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin EPS

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1755 MHz

2320 MHz

Core clock speed

-

2075 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

26,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

10752

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

589.7

556.8

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

48 GB

32 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

14.5 GB/s

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

695.8 GB/s

512.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

3x DisplayPort

6x mini-DisplayPort

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

-

OpenCL

2.0

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.5

Vulkan

1.2

1.2