AMD Radeon Pro Vega II vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 57% higher core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 1005 MHz
  • Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1720 MHz vs 1545 MHz
  • Around 98% higher texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 222.5 GTexel/s
  • Around 78% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 2304
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 16% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 99542 vs 85526
Specifications (specs)
Launch date Dec 2019 vs 13 November 2018
Core clock speed 1574 MHz vs 1005 MHz
Boost clock speed 1720 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s vs 222.5 GTexel/s
Pipelines 4096 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 12 nm
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 99542 vs 85526

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

  • 3x lower typical power consumption: 160 Watt vs 475 Watt
  • Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 1625 MHz (13000 MHz effective) vs 1612 MHz
  • Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 20206 vs 16149
  • Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 20206 vs 16149
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3714 vs 3100
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3714 vs 3100
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3359 vs 2813
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3359 vs 2813
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 160 Watt vs 475 Watt
Memory clock speed 1625 MHz (13000 MHz effective) vs 1612 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20206 vs 16149
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20206 vs 16149
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3714 vs 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3714 vs 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 vs 2813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 vs 2813

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
99542
85526
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
16149
20206
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
16149
20206
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3100
3714
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3100
3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2813
3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2813
3359
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega II NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000
Geekbench - OpenCL 99542 85526
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16149 20206
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16149 20206
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3100 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3100 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2813 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2813 3359
PassMark - G2D Mark 768
PassMark - G3D Mark 15475
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 282.628
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3403.106
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 24.719
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 136.919
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1010.818
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7856

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 Turing
Code name Vega 20 TU104
Launch date Dec 2019 13 November 2018
Place in performance rating 166 195
Type Laptop Desktop
GCN generation Quadro RTX
Launch price (MSRP) $899

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1720 MHz 1545 MHz
Compute units 64
Core clock speed 1574 MHz 1005 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 880.6 GFLOPS (1:16) 222.5 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 28.18 TFLOPS (2:1) 14.24 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 14.09 TFLOPS 7.119 TFLOPS
Pipelines 4096 2304
Pixel fill rate 110.1 GPixel/s 98.88 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s 222.5 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 475 Watt 160 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million 13600 million
Render output units 64
Texture Units 144

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot
Length 9.5 inches (241 mm)

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.1
OpenCL 2.0 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.4 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 825.3 GB/s 416.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 4096 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 1612 MHz 1625 MHz (13000 MHz effective)
Memory type HBM2 GDDR6

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)