NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 22 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Oct 1999
Quadro
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
-
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
SDR
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
-
40
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
60W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
NV10
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Celsius
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
220 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.017 billion
Unknown
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
-
