NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA A2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1770MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2 +15%

4.531 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

A2

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Sep 2014

Quadro

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1664

40

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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