NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 270
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2021
Nov 2013
Generation
Quadro
Volcanic Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
562 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1200 MHz
925 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
179.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
26
—
Shading Units
3328
1280
TMUs
104
80
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
104
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RT Cores
26
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
74.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
7.987 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
7.987 TFLOPS
2.368 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
148.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
Curacao
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
212 mm²
GPU Variant
—
Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
Board Design
TDP
70W
150W
Suggested PSU
250 W
450 W
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
—
Shader Model
6.6
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
5,834
1,603
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
2,681
—
OctaneBench
227
—
Blender
1,885
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.