Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and RTX A40 - video card comparison
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
RTX A40
Architecture
GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Vega 10
GA102
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2017
October 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
1600 MHz
1755 MHz
Core clock speed
1382 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
13,107 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
12,500 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
10752
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
409.6
589.7
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
2048 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1890 MHz
14.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
483.8 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
1.1.125
1.2