AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1295 MHz vs 1095 MHz
  • Around 72% higher boost clock speed: 2430 MHz vs 1410 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
  • Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 263 Watt vs 400 Watt
  • Around 53% higher memory clock speed: 2438 MHz, 19.5 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)
Launch date 25 Aug 2023 vs 16 Nov 2020
Core clock speed 1295 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed 2430 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 263 Watt vs 400 Watt
Memory clock speed 2438 MHz, 19.5 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

  • Around 4% higher texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 583.2 GTexel/s
  • Around 80% higher pipelines: 6912 vs 3840
  • 5x more maximum memory size: 80 GB vs 16 GB
  • Around 50% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 209899 vs 140226
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 609.1 GTexel/s vs 583.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines 6912 vs 3840
Maximum memory size 80 GB vs 16 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 209899 vs 140226

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
140226
209899
Name AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark 1131
PassMark - G3D Mark 24340
Geekbench - OpenCL 140226 209899
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 20048
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 500.918
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 43.482
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 530.303
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2259.753

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ampere
Code name Navi 32 GA100
Launch date 25 Aug 2023 16 Nov 2020
Place in performance rating 25 28

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2430 MHz 1410 MHz
Compute units 60
Core clock speed 1295 MHz 1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 7 nm
Pipelines 3840 6912
Pixel fill rate 233.3 GPixel/s 225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 583.2 GTexel/s 609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 263 Watt 400 Watt
Transistor count 28100 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 1x HDMI 2.1a, 3x DisplayPort 2.1 No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot IGP
Height 50 mm, 2 inches
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt 800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin None
Width 111 mm, 4.4 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 16 GB 80 GB
Memory bandwidth 624.1 GB/s 2039 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 5120 bit
Memory clock speed 2438 MHz, 19.5 Gbps effective 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)