NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (250W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2 +32%

5.733 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

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Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Apr 2014

Tesla

Generation

Volcanic 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

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

1280

Shading Units

2816

40

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Vesuvius

-

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

6.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

500W

600 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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