NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe +69%

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

2.56 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

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Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2013

Tesla

Generation

Sea 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

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

1280

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

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

32.00 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

175W

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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