L20 vs Radeon PRO W7900

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking11not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation16.95no data
ArchitectureRDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 31AD102
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date13 April 2023 (1 year ago)16 November 2023 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,999 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 cores614411776
Boost clock speed2495 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors57,700 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)295 Watt275 Watt
Texture fill rate958.1927.4
ROPs192128
TMUs384368

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
Length280 mm267 mm
Width3-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount48 GB48 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed18 GB/s18 GB/s
Memory bandwidth864.0 GB/s864.0 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 Connectors3x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x mini-DisplayPort 2.14x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.23.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 April 2023 16 November 2023
Power consumption (TDP) 295 Watt 275 Watt

L20 has an age advantage of 7 months, and 7.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon PRO W7900 and L20. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon PRO W7900 is a workstation graphics card while L20 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon PRO W7900
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