NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A6000 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid 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 - 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 A6000

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A6000

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 3% higher core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 1406 MHz
Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 1677 MHz
1455.9x more texture fill rate: 625.0 GTexel/s vs 429.3 GTexel / s
2.6x more pipelines: 10752 vs 4096
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 48 GB vs 8 GB
Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1890 MHz

Launch date	5 Oct 2020 vs 8 August 2017
Core clock speed	1455 MHz vs 1406 MHz
Boost clock speed	1860 MHz vs 1677 MHz
Texture fill rate	625.0 GTexel/s vs 429.3 GTexel / s
Pipelines	10752 vs 4096
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	48 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1890 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 300 Watt
Around 67% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 7765 vs 4651

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	7765 vs 4651

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A6000
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

4651

7765

Name	NVIDIA RTX A6000	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
PassMark - G3D Mark	4237
PassMark - G2D Mark	86
Geekbench - OpenCL	193937
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	735.8
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	58.523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	178.784
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2342.233
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	4651	7765

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A6000	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.0
Code name	GA102	Vega 10
Launch date	5 Oct 2020	8 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP)	$4649
Place in performance rating	102	101
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1860 MHz	1677 MHz
Core clock speed	1455 MHz	1406 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1250 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	40.00 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	40.00 TFLOPS
Pipelines	10752	4096
Pixel fill rate	208.3 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	625.0 GTexel/s	429.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	28300 million
Floating-point performance		13,738 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)	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	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	48 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