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NVIDIA RTX A400 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2024 Mar 2012
Generation Quadro Ampere(Ax000) Southern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1417 MHz
Boost Clock 1762 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 64bit 256bit
Bandwidth 96.00GB/s 153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 6
Shading Units 768 1280
TMUs 24 80
ROPs 16 32
Tensor Cores 24
RT Cores 6
L1 Cache 128 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 512 KB
Compute Units 20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 28.19 GPixel/s 32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 42.29 GTexel/s 80.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 2.706 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 2.706 TFLOPS 2.560 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 42.29 GFLOPS 160.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GA107 Pitcairn
Architecture Ampere GCN 1.0
Foundry Samsung TSMC
Process Size 8 nm 28 nm
Transistors 8.7 billion 2.8 billion
Die Size 200 mm² 212 mm²
GPU Variant Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
Board Design
TDP 50W 175W
Suggested PSU 250 W 450 W
Outputs 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors None 2x 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 6.8 5.1