NVIDIA RTX A4000 vs AMD Radeon Pro VII

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A4000 and AMD Radeon Pro VII 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA RTX A4000

AMD Radeon Pro VII

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A4000

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
Around 60% higher pipelines: 6144 vs 3840
Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 140 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Around 36% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 122380 vs 89937

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 Apr 2021 vs 13 May 2020
Pipelines	6144 vs 3840
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	122380 vs 89937

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

Around 90% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 735 MHz
Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1560 MHz
Around 36% higher texture fill rate: 408 GTexel/s vs 299.5 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm

Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1560 MHz
Texture fill rate	408 GTexel/s vs 299.5 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A4000
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro VII

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

122380

89937

Name	NVIDIA RTX A4000	AMD Radeon Pro VII
PassMark - G3D Mark	19406
PassMark - G2D Mark	994
Geekbench - OpenCL	122380	89937
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	420.465
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	4156.52
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	32.297
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	162.131
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1895.111
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	22050
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	22050
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	11163

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A4000	AMD Radeon Pro VII
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.1
Code name	GA104	Vega 20
Launch date	12 Apr 2021	13 May 2020
Place in performance rating	105	191
Launch price (MSRP)		$1899
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1560 MHz	1700 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	599.0 GFLOPS (1:32)	6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	19.17 TFLOPS (1:1)	26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	19.17 TFLOPS	13.06 TFLOPS
Pipelines	6144	3840
Pixel fill rate	149.8 GPixel/s	108.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	299.5 GTexel/s	408 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million	13230 million
Compute units		60
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort	6x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Single-slot	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	241 mm (9.5 inches)	305 mm (12 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width	112 mm (4.4 inches)	111 mm (4.4 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.1
OpenCL	3.0	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.6	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	1024 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	4096 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)