NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe +14%

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Dec 2011

Tesla

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

Unknown

Die Size

352 mm²

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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