NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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), Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1380 - 1485 MHz vs 1471 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 210 Watt
8.8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Around 26% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 18169 vs 14462
Around 26% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 18169 vs 14462

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 May 2019 vs 14 August 2017
Boost clock speed	1380 - 1485 MHz vs 1471 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 210 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	18169 vs 14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	18169 vs 14462

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1156 MHz vs 780 - 960 MHz
Around 40% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2560
Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 774 vs 566
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13296 vs 12794
2.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 163998 vs 68858

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1156 MHz vs 780 - 960 MHz
Pipelines	3584 vs 2560
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	774 vs 566
PassMark - G3D Mark	13296 vs 12794
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717 vs 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717 vs 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3361 vs 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3361 vs 3359
Geekbench - OpenCL	163998 vs 68858

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

566

774

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

12794

13296

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

18169

14462

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

18169

14462

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3716

3717

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3716

3717

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3359

3361

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3359

3361

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

68858

163998

Name	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
PassMark - G2D Mark	566	774
PassMark - G3D Mark	12794	13296
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	18169	14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	18169	14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3716	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3716	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359	3361
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359	3361
Geekbench - OpenCL	68858	163998
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		184.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1765.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		12.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		79.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1022.925
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		6875

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 5.0
Code name	N19E-Q3 MAX-Q	Vega 10
Launch date	27 May 2019	14 August 2017
Place in performance rating	181	211
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Design		Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1380 - 1485 MHz	1471 MHz
Core clock speed	780 - 960 MHz	1156 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	2560	3584
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	210 Watt
Transistor count	13600 million	12,500 million
Compute units		56
Floating-point performance		10.5 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		21 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		10.5 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate		94.00 GP/s
Render output units		64
Stream Processors		3584
Texture fill rate		330.00 GTexel/s
Texture Units		256
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Length		267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)		650 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
OpenCL		2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2048 bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
Memory bandwidth		410 GB/s
Technologies
Multi Monitor
VR Ready
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore