RTX A4000 Max-Q vs Radeon VII

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking86not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation25.49no data
Power efficiency10.01no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega 20GA104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date7 February 2019 (5 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 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 cores38405120
Core clock speed1400 MHz780 MHz
Boost clock speed1750 MHz1395 MHz
Number of transistors13,230 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)295 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate420.0223.2
Floating-point processing power13.44 TFLOPS14.28 TFLOPS
ROPs6480
TMUs240160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length280 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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB8 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth1024 GB/s352.0 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, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2019 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 295 Watt 80 Watt

Radeon VII has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX A4000 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and 268.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon VII and RTX A4000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon VII is a desktop card while RTX A4000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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