NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile and AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Launch date 22 Mar 2022 vs 3 Aug 2021

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 832 MHz
  • Around 28% higher boost clock speed: 1975 MHz vs 1537 MHz
  • 4.8x more texture fill rate: 474.0 GTexel/s vs 98.37 GTexel/s
  • Around 88% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2048
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
  • 2.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 113306 vs 41248
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1800 MHz vs 832 MHz
Boost clock speed 1975 MHz vs 1537 MHz
Texture fill rate 474.0 GTexel/s vs 98.37 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3840 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 113306 vs 41248

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
41248
113306
Name NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo
Geekbench - OpenCL 41248 113306
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

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

Essentials

Architecture Ampere RDNA 2.0
Code name GA107S Navi 21
Launch date 22 Mar 2022 3 Aug 2021
Place in performance rating 530 531
Launch price (MSRP) $4999
Type Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1537 MHz 1975 MHz
Core clock speed 832 MHz 1800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 98.37 GFLOPS (1:64) 948.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 6.296 TFLOPS (1:1) 30.34 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 6.296 TFLOPS 15.17 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 3840
Pixel fill rate 73.78 GPixel/s 189.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 98.37 GTexel/s 474.0 GTexel/s
Compute units 60
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 400 Watt
Transistor count 26800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 4x Thunderbolt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 32 GB
Memory bandwidth 96.00 GB/s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6