NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 74% (1695MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe +44%

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Nov 2012

Tesla

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

1280

Shading Units

1536

40

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

Unknown

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

185W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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