AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+26%
5.728 TFLOPS
A2
4.531 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Nov 2021
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1440 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
10
2304
Shading Units
1280
144
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
60W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GA107
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Ampere
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
Unknown
232 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
