Radeon VII and RTX A40 - video card comparison

Radeon VII

RTX A40

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Vega 20

GA102

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

February 2019

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1750 MHz

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

1400 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

13,230 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

295 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

420.0

589.7

Memory type

HBM2

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1024 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

3x DisplayPort

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2