NVIDIA A2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA A2

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (60W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2 +117%

4.531 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

A2

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Aug 2012

Quadro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1440

40

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

151W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Cypress

-

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.154 billion

Unknown

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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