Radeon Pro W6800 vs A100 PCIe

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated53
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data23.63
Power efficiencyno data14.10
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA100Navi 21
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date22 June 2020 (4 years ago)8 June 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$2,249

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 cores69123840
Core clock speed1410 MHz2075 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2320 MHz
Number of transistors54,200 million26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate609.1556.8
Floating-point processing power19.49 TFLOPS17.82 TFLOPS
ROPs16096
TMUs432240
Tensor Cores432no data
Ray Tracing Coresno data60

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
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeHBM2eGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount40 GB32 GB
Memory bus width5120 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1215 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,555 GB/s512.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs6x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.21.2
CUDA8.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 June 2020 8 June 2021
Maximum RAM amount 40 GB 32 GB

A100 PCIe has a 25% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Pro W6800, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months.

We couldn't decide between A100 PCIe and Radeon Pro W6800. We've got no test results to judge.


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