NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs NVIDIA A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1770MHz vs 1695MHz)
Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A16 PCIe
4.339 TFLOPS
A2
+4%
4.531 TFLOPS
Blender
A16 PCIe
510
A2
+76%
902
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Nov 2021
Tesla
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
885 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1812 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
231.9GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
10
1280
Shading Units
1280
40
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
32
40
Tensor Cores
40
10
RT Cores
10
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
54.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
67.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
4.339 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
4.339 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
135.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
60W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GA107
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-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
8 nm
Process Size
8 nm
Unknown
Transistors
Unknown
Unknown
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
