MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

Comparison of MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z with 32 GB GDDR7 and 21,760 cores vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe with 16 GB GDDR6 and 1,280 cores.

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Performance Rating

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z outperforms NVIDIA A16 PCIe by 914.84% in the overall GPU ARK performance rating

A100 A100
H200 H200
MI325X MI325X

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2
RX 7900 XTX RX 7900 XTX
MI250 MI250
Instinct MI300X Instinct MI300X

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

4.7

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

4.7

Contents:

Memory ML Performance Compute Power Architecture & Compatibility ML Software Support Clocks & Performance Power Consumption Rendering Additional

Memory

Memory Size

🔥 +100% 32 ГБ
16 GB ×4 (64 ГБ)

Memory Type

GDDR7 GDDR6

Memory Bandwidth

🔥 1.79 TB/s
200.1 GB/s ×4 (800.4 GB/s)

Memory Bus Width

512 бит 128 бит ×4 (512 бит)

ML Performance

FP16 (Half Precision)

🔥 +2,544% 118.8 TFLOPS
4.493 TFLOPS

BF16 (Brain Float)

No No

TF32 (TensorFloat)

No No

Compute Power

FP32 (Single Precision)

🔥 +2,544% 118.8 TFLOPS
4.493 TFLOPS

FP64 (Double Precision)

🔥 +1,222% 1.856 TFLOPS
0.1404 TFLOPS

CUDA Cores

🔥 +1,600% 21,760
1,280 ×4 (5120)

RT Cores

🔥 +1,600% 170
10 ×4 (40)

Architecture & Compatibility

GPU Architecture

Blackwell 2.0 Ampere

SM (Streaming Multiprocessor)

🔥 +1,600% 170
10

PCIe Version

PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8

ML Software Support

CUDA Version

🔥 12.0
8.6

Clocks & Performance

Base Clock

🔥 +54% 2,017
1,312

Boost Clock

🔥 +56% 2,730
1,755

Memory Clock

🔥 +12% 1,750
1,563

Power Consumption

Recommended PSU

1400 W
🔥 -57% 600 W

Power Connector

🔥 2x 16-pin
8-pin EPS

TDP/TGP

1000 W
🔥 -75% 250 W

Rendering

Texture Units (TMU)

🔥 +1,600% 680
40 ×4 (160)

ROP

🔥 +1,600% 170
10 ×4 (40)

L2 Cache

🔥 +4,700% 96 MB
2 MB

Additional

Slots

Triple-slot Dual-slot

Release Date

Jan. 6, 2026 April 12, 2021

Display Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x USB Type-C
No outputs

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