AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA A2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1770MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +28%

5.834 TFLOPS

A2

4.531 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon RX 480

374

A2 +141%

902

Radeon RX 480

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Nov 2021

Arctic Islands

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/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

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA107

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

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

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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