AMD Radeon PRO W7900 vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon PRO W7900 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 PRO W7900

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon PRO W7900

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 69% higher core clock speed: 1855 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Around 77% higher boost clock speed: 2495 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Around 57% higher texture fill rate: 958.1 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 36% lower typical power consumption: 295 Watt vs 400 Watt
Around 20% higher maximum memory size: 48 GB vs 40 GB
Around 85% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)

Launch date	13 Apr 2023 vs 14 May 2020
Core clock speed	1855 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed	2495 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Texture fill rate	958.1 GTexel/s vs 609.1 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	295 Watt vs 400 Watt
Maximum memory size	48 GB vs 40 GB
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 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 6% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 201849 vs 190321

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	6912 vs 6144
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	201849 vs 190321

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon PRO W7900
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

190321

201849

Name	AMD Radeon PRO W7900	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	1139
PassMark - G3D Mark	29329
Geekbench - OpenCL	190321	201849
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 PRO W7900	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Ampere
Code name	Navi 31	GA100
Launch date	13 Apr 2023	14 May 2020
Launch price (MSRP)	$3999
Place in performance rating	13	12
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2495 MHz	1410 MHz
Compute units	96
Core clock speed	1855 MHz	1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	6144	6912
Pixel fill rate	479.0 GPixel/s	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	958.1 GTexel/s	609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	295 Watt	400 Watt
Transistor count	57700 million	54200 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		19.49 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	3x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x mini-DisplayPort 2.1	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Triple-slot	IGP
Height	51 mm, 2 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	280 mm, 11 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt	800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None
Width	110 mm, 4.3 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.2	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	48 GB	40 GB
Memory bandwidth	864.0 GB/s	1555 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit	5120 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)