NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A6000 and AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A6000

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 56% higher core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 931 MHz
  • Around 84% higher boost clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 1011 MHz
  • 7.7x more texture fill rate: 625.0 GTexel/s vs 80.88 GTexel/s
  • 8.4x more pipelines: 10752 vs 1280
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
  • 12x more maximum memory size: 48 GB vs 4 GB
  • 2.9x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)
Launch date 5 Oct 2020 vs 1 February 2018
Core clock speed 1455 MHz vs 931 MHz
Boost clock speed 1860 MHz vs 1011 MHz
Texture fill rate 625.0 GTexel/s vs 80.88 GTexel/s
Pipelines 10752 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size 48 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

  • Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4643 vs 4237
  • 4.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 405 vs 86
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4643 vs 4237
PassMark - G2D Mark 405 vs 86

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A6000
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4237
4643
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
86
405
Name NVIDIA RTX A6000 AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL
PassMark - G3D Mark 4237 4643
PassMark - G2D Mark 86 405
Geekbench - OpenCL 200330
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 737.53
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 59.432
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 189.702
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2347.314
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 23142
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 23142
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 17833

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A6000 AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Essentials

Architecture Ampere GCN 4.0
Code name GA102 Polaris 22
Launch date 5 Oct 2020 1 February 2018
Launch price (MSRP) $4649
Place in performance rating 94 252
Type Mobile workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1860 MHz 1011 MHz
Core clock speed 1455 MHz 931 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1250 GFLOPS (1:32) 161.8 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 40.00 TFLOPS (1:1) 2.588 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 40.00 TFLOPS 2.588 TFLOPS
Pipelines 10752 1280
Pixel fill rate 208.3 GPixel/s 32.35 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 625.0 GTexel/s 80.88 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt
Transistor count 28300 million 5000 million
Compute performance 20
Texture Units 65 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 IGP
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 8-pin EPS
Width 112 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12.2 12
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.6 6.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 48 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 768 GB/s 179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 bit 1024 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)