GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA A2

CORE STATE GA107

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1770 MHz

TDP 60 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,866

33,457

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

38,172

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

A2

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

2,048 +60.0%

Shaders

1,280

2,048 +60.0%

TMUs

40

128 +220.0%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

SM Count

10

—

Clocks

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz 12.5 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

16 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

16,384

4,096 -75.0%

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

200.1 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.531 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

70.80 GFLOPS (1:64)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

4.531 TFLOPS (1:1)

—

AI/RT

RT Cores

10

—

Tensor Cores

40

—

Power

TDP

60 W

165 W

TDP (W)

60

165 +175.0%

Suggested PSU

250 W

450 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Ampere

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GA107

GM204

Generation

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

GeForce 900

Process Size

8 nm

28 nm

Transistors

8,700 million

5,200 million

Die Size

200 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

Samsung

TSMC

Density

43.5M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Single-slot

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

No outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Quadro Turing

GeForce 700

Successor

Workstation Ada

GeForce 10

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