NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1770MHz vs 1683MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Lower TDP (60W vs 150W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
4.531 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+42%
6.463 TFLOPS
Blender
A2
+37%
902
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
657
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Dec 2018
Quadro
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
15
1280
Shading Units
1920
40
TMUs
120
32
ROPs
64
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GP104
-
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Pascal
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
16 nm
Unknown
Transistors
7.2 billion
Unknown
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
6.1
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
