NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe +298%

4.339 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

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GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Mar 2010

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

448

40

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GF100

-

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

3.1 billion

Unknown

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

215W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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