NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1770MHz vs 1683MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Lower TDP (60W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+42%
6.463 TFLOPS
A2
4.531 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
657
A2
+37%
902
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Nov 2021
GeForce 10
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
10
1920
Shading Units
1280
120
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
60W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GA107
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
16 nm
Process Size
8 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
Unknown
314 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
