AMD Radeon Pro VII vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro VII and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro VII

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 39% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1005 MHz
Around 42% higher boost clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm

Launch date	13 May 2020 vs 13 August 2018
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1005 MHz
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 12 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

14x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Around 51% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 136245 vs 90077

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	136245 vs 90077

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro VII
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

90077

136245

Name	AMD Radeon Pro VII	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000
Geekbench - OpenCL	90077	136245
PassMark - G3D Mark		19370
PassMark - G2D Mark		869
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		401.574
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		6432.348
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		43.914
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		215.219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2101.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		21578
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3290
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		21578
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3290
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro VII	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	Turing
Code name	Vega 20	TU102
Launch date	13 May 2020	13 August 2018
Launch price (MSRP)	$1899	$9,999
Place in performance rating	190	103
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz	1200 MHz
Compute units	60
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	1005 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.06 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840
Pixel fill rate	108.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	408 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	13230 million	18,600 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort	3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	305 mm (12 inches)	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
Width	111 mm (4.4 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	1024 GB/s
Memory bus width	4096 bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)	14000 MHz
Memory type	HBM2