NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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NVIDIA A16 PCIe AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (1695MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe +129%

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Mar 2015

Tesla

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

1280

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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