NVIDIA A2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

NVIDIA A2 AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2 +626%

4.531 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

A2

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Oct 2013

Quadro

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1280

Shading Units

480

40

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Turks

-

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.716 billion

Unknown

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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