NVIDIA A2 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
4.531 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+26%
5.728 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Apr 2017
Quadro
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
-
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
2304
40
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
250W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
Ellesmere
-
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Samsung
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
8 nm
Process Size
14 nm
Unknown
Transistors
5.7 billion
Unknown
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
