NVIDIA A2 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 7 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (60W vs 500W)
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
4.531 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 295X2
+26%
5.733 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Apr 2014
Quadro
Generation
Volcanic Islands
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
1250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
2816
40
TMUs
176
32
ROPs
64
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
500W
250 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
Vesuvius
-
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
6.2 billion
Unknown
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.3
