AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA A2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1770MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

A2 +73%

4.531 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2021

Polaris

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GA107

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

123 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

75W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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