AMD Radeon RX 6700 vs NVIDIA A40

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6700 and NVIDIA A40 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6700

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
  • Around 49% higher core clock speed: 1941 MHz vs 1305 MHz
  • Around 41% higher boost clock speed: 2450 MHz vs 1740 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 71% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective)
  • Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1069 vs 627
  • Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 19327 vs 14665
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 9 Jun 2021 vs 5 Oct 2020
Core clock speed 1941 MHz vs 1305 MHz
Boost clock speed 2450 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1069 vs 627
PassMark - G3D Mark 19327 vs 14665

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A40

  • Around 66% higher texture fill rate: 584.6 GTexel/s vs 352.8 GTexel/s
  • 4.7x more pipelines: 10752 vs 2304
  • 4.8x more maximum memory size: 48 GB vs 10 GB
  • 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 193594 vs 91900
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 584.6 GTexel/s vs 352.8 GTexel/s
Pipelines 10752 vs 2304
Maximum memory size 48 GB vs 10 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 193594 vs 91900

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6700
GPU 2: NVIDIA A40

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1069
627
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
19327
14665
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
91900
193594
Name AMD Radeon RX 6700 NVIDIA A40
PassMark - G2D Mark 1069 627
PassMark - G3D Mark 19327 14665
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 11162
Geekbench - OpenCL 91900 193594

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6700 NVIDIA A40

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Ampere
Code name Navi 22 GA102
Launch date 9 Jun 2021 5 Oct 2020
Place in performance rating 53 54

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2450 MHz 1740 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1941 MHz 1305 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 705.6 GFLOPS (1:16) 1169 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 22.58 TFLOPS (2:1) 37.42 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 11.29 TFLOPS 37.42 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2304 10752
Pixel fill rate 156.8 GPixel/s 194.9 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 352.8 GTexel/s 584.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 300 Watt
Transistor count 17200 million 28300 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Height 40 mm, 1.6 inches
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 8-pin EPS
Width 110 mm, 4.3 inches 112 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 10 GB 48 GB
Memory bandwidth 320.0 GB/s 695.8 GB/s
Memory bus width 160 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 1812 MHz (14.5 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6