A2: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started A2 sales 10 November 2021. This is an Ampere architecture desktop card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 16 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.56 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 200.1 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 60 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about A2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GA107
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	10 November 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of A2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1280	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	1440 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed	1770 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	70.80	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	4.531 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	32	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	40	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores	40	of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores	10	of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of A2 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on A2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1563 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	200.1 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on A2. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by A2, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.6
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.2
CUDA	8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of A2. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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