NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

VS

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (2520MHz vs 1695MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

20480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +2428%

109.7 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2025

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

170

1280

Shading Units

21760

40

TMUs

680

32

ROPs

192

40

Tensor Cores

680

10

RT Cores

170

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

88 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

500W

600 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GB202

-

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

4 nm

Unknown

Transistors

Unknown

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

10.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.8

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