NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1725MHz vs 1695MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +368%

20.31 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

1280

184

TMUs

40

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

40

46

RT Cores

10

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA107

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

392 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

220W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

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

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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