NVIDIA A2 vs AMD FireStream 9250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
+353%
4.531 TFLOPS
FireStream 9250
1 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Jun 2008
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
993 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
63.55GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
800
40
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1000 GFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
200.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
RV770
-
GPU Variant
RV770 PRO
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
55 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.956 billion
Unknown
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
4.1
