NVIDIA A10G vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2021
Jan 2013
Generation
Tesla
Sea Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
600.2GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
72
-
Shading Units
9216
2048
TMUs
288
128
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
288
-
RT Cores
72
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
6 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
492.5 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
31.52 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
31.52 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
985.0 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GA102-890-A1
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
250W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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