NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 141W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2 +864%

4.531 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

A2

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Jan 2009

Quadro

Generation

GeForce 9

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

1100 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

128

40

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

G92B

-

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.754 billion

Unknown

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

141W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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