NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 21 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Oct 1999
Tesla
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
885 MHz
Base Clock
-
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1812 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
SDR
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
231.9GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
-
40
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
54.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
67.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
4.339 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.339 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
135.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
Unknown
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x VGA
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
NV10
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Celsius
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
220 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.017 billion
Unknown
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
-
