RTX A40 vs ATI FireMV 2400 PCIe x1

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureR300 (2005−2008)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV380GA102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date2008 (16 years ago)5 October 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data10752
Core clock speed250 MHz1305 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1755 MHz
Number of transistors75 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate1.000589.7
Floating-point processing powerno data37.74 TFLOPS
ROPs4112
TMUs4336
Tensor Coresno data336
Ray Tracing Coresno data84

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x1PCIe 4.0 x16
Length170 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone8-pin EPS

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB48 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed406 MBps1812 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.496 GB/s695.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x VHDCI3x DisplayPort

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 48 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 300 Watt

ATI FireMV 2400 PCIe x1 has 1400% lower power consumption.

RTX A40, on the other hand, has a 76700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1525% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FireMV 2400 PCIe x1 and RTX A40. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireMV 2400 PCIe x1 is a desktop card while RTX A40 is a workstation one.


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