Radeon Pro W6900X vs Pro Vega II Duo

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking133not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation6.92no data
Power efficiency5.25no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega 20Navi 21
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date3 June 2019 (5 years ago)3 August 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$4,399 $4,999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores40965120
Core clock speed1400 MHz1825 MHz
Boost clock speed1720 MHz2150 MHz
Number of transistors13,230 million26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)475 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate440.3688.0
Floating-point processing power14.09 TFLOPS22.02 TFLOPS
ROPs64128
TMUs256320
Ray Tracing Coresno data80

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).

InterfaceApple MPXPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
WidthQuad-slotQuad-slot
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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 GB32 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.02 TB/s512.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.0b, 4x Thunderbolt1x HDMI, 4x Thunderbolt
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.1
Vulkan1.31.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 June 2019 3 August 2021
Power consumption (TDP) 475 Watt 300 Watt

Pro W6900X has an age advantage of 2 years, and 58.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro Vega II Duo and Radeon Pro W6900X. We've got no test results to judge.


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