NVIDIA A2 vs AMD FireStream 9270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 13 years late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
+277%
4.531 TFLOPS
FireStream 9270
1.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Nov 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
900 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/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
12.00 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
160W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
RV770
-
GPU Variant
RV770 XT
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
