Data Center GPU Max Subsystem vs Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking586not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency27.61no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Generation 12.5 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameVega RenoirPonte Vecchio
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)10 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 cores38416384
Core clock speed400 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1600 MHz
Number of transistorsno data100,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt2400 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,638
Floating-point processing powerno data52.43 TFLOPS
TMUsno data1024
Tensor Coresno data1024
Ray Tracing Coresno data128

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 5.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-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 typeno dataHBM2e
Maximum RAM amountno data128 GB
Memory bus widthno data8192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1565 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data3,205 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 10 January 2023
Chip lithography 7 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 2400 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 15900% lower power consumption.

Data Center GPU Max Subsystem, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Data Center GPU Max Subsystem. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while Data Center GPU Max Subsystem is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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