AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA A2

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

A2 +399%

4.531 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2021

Polaris

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

32bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA107

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

103 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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