NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1695MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe +61%

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Oct 2013

Tesla

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

10

SM Count

-

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

33.60 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

180W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Curacao

-

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 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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