NVIDIA A2 vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 14 years late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
+811%
4.531 TFLOPS
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Nov 2007
Quadro
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
-
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
320
40
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
105W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
RV670
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
55 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.666 billion
Unknown
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
4.1
