AMD Radeon Pro W6600 vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6600 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, 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), Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6600

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 2x more core clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1095 MHz
  • 2.1x more boost clock speed: 2903 MHz vs 1410 MHz
  • 3.1x lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 400 Watt
  • Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)
Launch date 8 Jun 2021 vs 14 May 2020
Core clock speed 2200 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed 2903 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt vs 400 Watt
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

  • Around 87% higher texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 325.1 GTexel/s
  • 3.9x more pipelines: 6912 vs 1792
  • 5x more maximum memory size: 40 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 21006 vs 20826
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 21006 vs 20826
  • Around 76% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 27823 vs 15778
  • Around 76% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 27823 vs 15778
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 51880 vs 42325
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 51880 vs 42325
  • 2.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 201255 vs 70380
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 609.1 GTexel/s vs 325.1 GTexel/s
Pipelines 6912 vs 1792
Maximum memory size 40 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 21006 vs 20826
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 21006 vs 20826
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 27823 vs 15778
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 27823 vs 15778
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 51880 vs 42325
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 51880 vs 42325
Geekbench - OpenCL 201255 vs 70380

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6600
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20826
21006
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20826
21006
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
15778
27823
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
15778
27823
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
42325
51880
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
42325
51880
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
70380
201255
Name AMD Radeon Pro W6600 NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark 1023
PassMark - G3D Mark 15863
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20826 21006
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20826 21006
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 15778 27823
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 15778 27823
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 42325 51880
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 42325 51880
Geekbench - OpenCL 70380 201255

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W6600 NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Ampere
Code name Navi 23 GA100
Launch date 8 Jun 2021 14 May 2020
Launch price (MSRP) $649
Place in performance rating 38 12

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2903 MHz 1410 MHz
Compute units 28
Core clock speed 2200 MHz 1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 650.3 GFLOPS (1:16) 9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 20.81 TFLOPS (2:1) 77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.40 TFLOPS 19.49 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1792 6912
Pixel fill rate 185.8 GPixel/s 225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 325.1 GTexel/s 609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 400 Watt
Transistor count 11060 million 54200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Single-slot IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 241 mm (9.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 300 Watt 800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.1
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 40 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 1555 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 5120 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) 1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)