Radeon 780M vs RTX A2000 Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated302
Place by popularitynot in top-10049
Power efficiencyno data83.73
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA106Phoenix
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date12 April 2021 (3 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores2560768
Core clock speed682 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed1207 MHz2700 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)95 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate96.56129.6
Floating-point processing power6.18 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs8048
Tensor Cores80no data
Ray Tracing Cores2012

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1375 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth176.0 GB/sno data
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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.1
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2021 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 8 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 95 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 780M has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 533.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A2000 Max-Q and Radeon 780M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A2000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation card while Radeon 780M is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q
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