AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (2310MHz vs 1695MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 576.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (230W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT

23.65 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q +17%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

RTX A5000 12Q

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Apr 2021

Navi II

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1170 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

64

80

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

8192

320

TMUs

256

128

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

80

RT Cores

64

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GA102

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

-

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

335W

TDP

230W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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