NVIDIA A2 vs ATI FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 159W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
+929%
4.531 TFLOPS
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
May 2007
Quadro
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
-
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
320
40
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
60W
TDP
159W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
R600
-
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
80 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.72 billion
Unknown
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
