AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 69% higher core clock speed: 1855 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Around 77% higher boost clock speed: 2499 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Around 58% higher texture fill rate: 959.6 GTexel/s vs 609.1 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 355 Watt vs 400 Watt
2.1x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)

Launch date	3 Nov 2022 vs 14 May 2020
Core clock speed	1855 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed	2499 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Texture fill rate	959.6 GTexel/s vs 609.1 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	355 Watt vs 400 Watt
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Around 13% higher pipelines: 6912 vs 6144
Around 67% higher maximum memory size: 40 GB vs 24 GB
Around 7% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 200556 vs 187715

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	6912 vs 6144
Maximum memory size	40 GB vs 24 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	200556 vs 187715

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

187715

200556

Name	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	1228
PassMark - G3D Mark	31059
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	30727
Geekbench - OpenCL	187715	200556
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	492.964
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	14101.507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	65.586
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	461.69
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2659.85
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		21006
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		21006
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		27823
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		27823
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		51880
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		51880

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Ampere
Code name	Navi 31	GA100
Launch date	3 Nov 2022	14 May 2020
Place in performance rating	8	9
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2499 MHz	1410 MHz
Compute units	96
Core clock speed	1855 MHz	1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	3.838 TFLOPS (1:16)	9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	122.8 TFLOPS (2:1)	77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	61.42 TFLOPS	19.49 TFLOPS
Pipelines	6144	6912
Pixel fill rate	479.8 GPixel/s	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	959.6 GTexel/s	609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	355 Watt	400 Watt
Transistor count	57700 million	54200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	IGP
Height	51 mm, 2 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	287 mm, 11.3 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	750 Watt	800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None
Width	135 mm, 5.3 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	40 GB
Memory bandwidth	960.0 GB/s	1555 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit	5120 bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective	1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)