A2: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started A2 sales 10 November 2021. This is a desktop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 8 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 16 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 12.5 GB/s are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 200.1 GB/s.

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

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name	GA107
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	10 November 2021 (2 years old)
Current price	$55	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed	1770 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	70.80	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and 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

Memory

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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	12.5 GB/s	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	200.1 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

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 support

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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