AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jul 2017
Apr 2021
Generation
Radeon Pro
Quadro Ampere-M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1382 MHz
720 MHz
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
1350 MHz
Memory Clock
945 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
16GB
16GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR6
Memory Bus
2048bit
256bit
Bandwidth
483.8GB/s
384.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
64
-
Shading Units
4096
6144
TMUs
256
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
102.4 GPixel/s
129.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
409.6 GTexel/s
259.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
26.21 TFLOPS
16.59 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.11 TFLOPS
16.59 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
819.2 GFLOPS
259.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Vega 10
GA104
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XTX LCS
-
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
375W
80W
Suggested PSU
750 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