NVIDIA A2 vs AMD FirePro D500

VS

NVIDIA A2 AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2 +103%

4.531 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

A2

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Jan 2014

Quadro

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

1280

Shading Units

1536

40

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

Unknown

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

274W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

None

Power Connectors

-

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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