NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA A2 NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1770MHz vs 1695MHz)

Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2 +4%

4.531 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

A2

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Apr 2021

Quadro

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

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

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA107

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

Unknown

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

60W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

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

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