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).

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

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 140194

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 140194

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

140194

209899

Name	AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	1125
PassMark - G3D Mark	24254
Geekbench - OpenCL	140194	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	26	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)