GRID A100A vs Radeon PRO WX 9100

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking172not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation10.93no data
Power efficiency9.56no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega 10GA100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date10 July 2017 (7 years ago)14 May 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,599 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 cores40966912
Core clock speed1200 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1005 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)230 Watt400 Watt
Texture fill rate384.0434.2
Floating-point processing power12.29 TFLOPS13.89 TFLOPS
ROPs64192
TMUs256432
Tensor Coresno data432

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
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeHBM2HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount16 GB48 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit6144 Bit
Memory clock speed945 MHz1215 MHz
Memory bandwidth483.8 GB/s1,866 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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.1.1251.2
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 July 2017 14 May 2020
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 230 Watt 400 Watt

PRO WX 9100 has 73.9% lower power consumption.

GRID A100A, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon PRO WX 9100 and GRID A100A. We've got no test results to judge.


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