RTX A40 vs ATI ES1000

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 6 (2000−2007)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameES1000GA102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date18 October 2007 (17 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 speed200 MHz1305 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1755 MHz
Number of transistors8 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data300 Watt
Texture fill rate0.6589.7
Floating-point processing powerno data37.74 TFLOPS
ROPs1112
TMUs3336
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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared48 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared384 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1812 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data695.8 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 ConnectorsNo outputs3x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX6.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL1.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 October 2007 5 October 2020
Chip lithography 180 nm 8 nm

RTX A40 has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 2150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between ES1000 and RTX A40. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that ES1000 is a desktop card while RTX A40 is a workstation one.


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