Radeon RX 6700S vs A30 PCIe

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated115
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data33.56
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA100Navi 23
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date12 April 2021 (3 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores35841792
Core clock speed930 MHz1700 MHz
Boost clock speed1440 MHz2000 MHz
Number of transistors54,200 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)165 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate322.6224.0
Floating-point processing power10.32 TFLOPS7.168 TFLOPS
ROPs9664
TMUs224112
Tensor Cores224no data
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPSNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount24 GB8 GB
Memory bus width3072 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1215 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth933.1 GB/s224.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader ModelN/A6.5
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCL3.02.1
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA8.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2021 4 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 165 Watt 80 Watt

A30 PCIe has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RX 6700S, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 months, and 106.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between A30 PCIe and Radeon RX 6700S. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that A30 PCIe is a workstation card while Radeon RX 6700S is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA A30 PCIe
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