AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2017
Apr 2021
Generation
Vega
Quadro Ampere-M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1156 MHz
720 MHz
Boost Clock
1471 MHz
1350 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
16GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR6
Memory Bus
2048bit
256bit
Bandwidth
409.6GB/s
384.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
56
-
Shading Units
3584
6144
TMUs
224
192
ROPs
64
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
4 MB
SM Count
-
48
Tensor Cores
-
192
RT Cores
-
48

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
94.14 GPixel/s
129.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
329.5 GTexel/s
259.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
21.09 TFLOPS
16.59 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.54 TFLOPS
16.59 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
659.0 GFLOPS
259.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Vega 10
GA104
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
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Architecture
GCN 5.0
Ampere
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Samsung
Process Size
14 nm
8 nm
Transistors
12.5 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
495 mm²
392 mm²

Board Design

TDP
210W
80W
Suggested PSU
550 W
-
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
CUDA
-
8.6

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
6,783
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,310
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