AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 14 years late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
A2
+811%
4.531 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Nov 2021
FireStream
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1440 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
10
320
Shading Units
1280
16
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
60W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GA107
-
-
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
Unknown
192 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
4.1
Shader Model
6.6
