NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB and AMD Radeon RX Vega XT 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: 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).

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
1459.6x more texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Around 69% higher pipelines: 6912 vs 4096
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
5x more maximum memory size: 40 GB vs 8 GB
Around 2% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 201255 vs 196748

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 May 2020 vs 8 August 2017
Texture fill rate	609.1 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Pipelines	6912 vs 4096
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	40 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	201255 vs 196748

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Around 16% higher boost clock speed: 1630 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Around 78% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 400 Watt
Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)

Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed	1630 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt vs 400 Watt
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz vs 1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

201255

196748

Name	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
Geekbench - OpenCL	201255	196748
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	21006
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	21006
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	27823
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	27823
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	51880
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	51880

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.0
Code name	GA100	Vega 10
Launch date	14 May 2020	8 August 2017
Place in performance rating	12	34
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1410 MHz	1630 MHz
Core clock speed	1095 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
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
Pipelines	6912	4096
Pixel fill rate	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	609.1 GTexel/s	417.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	400 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	54200 million
Floating-point performance		13,353 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Length		267 mm
API support
OpenCL	3.0
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	40 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	1555 GB/s	483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	5120 bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)	1890 MHz
Memory type	HBM2e	HBM2