NVIDIA RTX A4000 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A4000 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 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 RX Vega 56 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A4000

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1560 MHz vs 1301 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	12 Apr 2021 vs 1 June 2018
Boost clock speed	1560 MHz vs 1301 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Around 55% higher core clock speed: 1138 MHz vs 735 MHz
Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 140 Watt
2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8917 vs 3715
2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8917 vs 3715

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1138 MHz vs 735 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 140 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8917 vs 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8917 vs 3715

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A4000
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3715

8917

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3715

8917

Name	NVIDIA RTX A4000	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
PassMark - G3D Mark	19421
PassMark - G2D Mark	994
Geekbench - OpenCL	122486
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	8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	22050
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715	8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	11181

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A4000	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.0
Code name	GA104	Vega 10
Launch date	12 Apr 2021	1 June 2018
Place in performance rating	105	134
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1560 MHz	1301 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	1138 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	599.0 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	19.17 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	19.17 TFLOPS
Pipelines	6144
Pixel fill rate	149.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	299.5 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million	12,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Single-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	241 mm (9.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Width	112 mm (4.4 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6