NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

VS

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 56% (2250MHz vs 1440MHz)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT +123%

23.04 TFLOPS

Blender

A30 PCIe

2036

Radeon RX 6900 XT +44%

2948

A30 PCIe

VS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Oct 2020

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

80

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

5120

224

TMUs

320

96

ROPs

128

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

24 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

288.0 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

720.0 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

46.08 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1440 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Navi 21

-

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

7 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.5

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