NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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NVIDIA A16 PCIe AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1695MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +34%

5.834 TFLOPS

Blender

A16 PCIe +36%

510

Radeon RX 480

374

A16 PCIe

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jun 2016

Tesla

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

1280

Shading Units

2304

40

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.7 billion

Unknown

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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