AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA A2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (1770MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (60W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

A2 +68%

4.531 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

40

32

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

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GA107

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

180W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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