NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 130W)
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 23% (2175MHz vs 1770MHz)
More VRAM (20GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
4864 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
4.531 TFLOPS
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+489%
26.73 TFLOPS
Blender
A2
902
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+425%
4737
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Aug 2023
Quadro
Generation
Workstation Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
2175 MHz
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
20GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
160bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
10
SM Count
48
1280
Shading Units
6144
40
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
64
40
Tensor Cores
192
10
RT Cores
48
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
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Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
139.2 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
417.6 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
26.73 TFLOPS
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
26.73 TFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
130W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
AD104
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-
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Ampere
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
Unknown
Transistors
35.8 billion
Unknown
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
