NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe +60%

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Unknown

Tesla

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

40

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Antilles

-

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.64 billion

Unknown

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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