AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo and NVIDIA GeForce 720A 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 92% higher core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 938 MHz
  • 31578.9x more texture fill rate: 474.0 GTexel/s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
  • 40x more pipelines: 3840 vs 96
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 2 GB
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 vs 1 July 2014
Core clock speed 1800 MHz vs 938 MHz
Texture fill rate 474.0 GTexel/s vs 15.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines 3840 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 720A

  • 12.1x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 400 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 400 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Name AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo NVIDIA GeForce 720A
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2786
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2786
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2243
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2243
Geekbench - OpenCL 125290
PassMark - G2D Mark 304
PassMark - G3D Mark 614

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo NVIDIA GeForce 720A

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Fermi 2.0
Code name Navi 21 GF117
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 1 July 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $4999
Place in performance rating 503 505
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1975 MHz
Compute units 60
Core clock speed 1800 MHz 938 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 948.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 30.34 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 15.17 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 96
Pixel fill rate 189.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 474.0 GTexel/s 15.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 400 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 26800 million 585 million
Floating-point performance 360.2 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x Thunderbolt No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None
Width Quad-slot

API support

DirectX 12.2 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) 2000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 DDR3