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NVIDIA A2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz 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 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 69% (1770MHz vs 1050MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (60W vs 300W)
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
A2 +5%
4.531 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
4.301 TFLOPS
A2
VS

Graphics Card

Nov 2021
Release Date
Jun 2012
Quadro
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz

Memory

16GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
32
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
2048
40
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W
TDP
300W
250 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107
GPU Name
Tahiti
-
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
4.313 billion
Unknown
Die Size
352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.1

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