RTX A5000 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking8not rated
Place by popularity70not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation34.71no data
Power efficiency15.57no data
ArchitectureRDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 31GA104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date3 November 2022 (2 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data

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 cores61446144
Core clock speed1929 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speed2498 MHz1350 MHz
Number of transistors57,700 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)355 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate959.2259.2
Floating-point processing power61.39 TFLOPS16.59 TFLOPS
ROPs19296
TMUs384192
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Cores9648

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
Length287 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

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 speed2500 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth960.0 GB/s384.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-CPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.23.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 November 2022 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 5 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 355 Watt 80 Watt

RX 7900 XTX has an age advantage of 1 year, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 60% more advanced lithography process.

RTX A5000 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 343.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RTX A5000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 7900 XTX is a desktop card while RTX A5000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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