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).

 

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 5% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 200534 vs 190818
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 6912 vs 6144
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 200534 vs 190818

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
190818
200534
Name AMD Radeon PRO W7900 NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark 1141
PassMark - G3D Mark 29471
Geekbench - OpenCL 190818 200534
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 10

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)