NVIDIA RTX A5000 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A5000 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: 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).

NVIDIA RTX A5000

AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A5000

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1695 MHz vs 1630 MHz
1039.8x more texture fill rate: 433.9 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 8192 vs 4096
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 8 GB
Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1890 MHz

Launch date	12 Apr 2021 vs 8 August 2017
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz vs 1630 MHz
Texture fill rate	433.9 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Pipelines	8192 vs 4096
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1890 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Around 28% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1170 MHz
Around 2% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 230 Watt
Around 27% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 196748 vs 154667

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1170 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt vs 230 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	196748 vs 154667

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A5000
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

154667

196748

Name	NVIDIA RTX A5000	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	22901
PassMark - G2D Mark	1038
Geekbench - OpenCL	154667	196748
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	581.432
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	6836.931
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	54.372
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	191.518
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2038.811
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	22508
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	22508
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A5000	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.0
Code name	GA102	Vega 10
Launch date	12 Apr 2021	8 August 2017
Place in performance rating	65	34
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	1630 MHz
Core clock speed	1170 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	867.8 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	27.77 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	27.77 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8192	4096
Pixel fill rate	162.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	433.9 GTexel/s	417.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	230 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	28300 million
Floating-point performance		13,353 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm (10.5 inches)	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
Width	112 mm (4.4 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.2
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	768 GB/s	483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)	1890 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2