NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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NVIDIA A2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1770MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2 +15%

4.531 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

3.935 TFLOPS

Blender

A2 +379%

902

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

188

A2

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Aug 2016

Quadro

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

9

1280

Shading Units

1152

40

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

48

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GP106

-

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.4 billion

Unknown

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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