RTX A4000 vs Radeon RX 5950 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated56
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data25.95
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21GA104
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 cores51206144
Core clock speedno data735 MHz
Boost clock speed1635 MHz1560 MHz
Number of transistors21,000 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)350 Watt140 Watt
Texture fill rate523.2299.5
Floating-point processing power16.74 TFLOPS19.17 TFLOPS
ROPs9696
TMUs320192
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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 x16
Lengthno data241 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount24 GB16 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 GB/s448.0 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, 3x DisplayPort4x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 350 Watt 140 Watt

RX 5950 XT has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX A4000, on the other hand, has 150% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5950 XT and RTX A4000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5950 XT is a desktop card while RTX A4000 is a workstation one.


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