NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon VII

Compare NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q 16 GB vs AMD Radeon VII 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5962 points

6138 points

2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

136 FPS

29 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

107 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

81 FPS

100 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

92 FPS

106 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

61 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

56 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7879 points

9129 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1543.63 points

88% significantly higher Blender score

817.47 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

91343 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

86533 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

67503 points

77122 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

91343 points

92086 points

0.81% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

79119 points

91729 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

600 MHz

1400 MHz

133% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1350 MHz

1750 MHz

29% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

Identical

16 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

4096 Bit

1500% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

1024 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

274% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

86.4 Gigapixels/s

115.26 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

259.20 Gigatexels/s

432.24 Gigatexels/s

66% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.29 TFLOPS

13.8 TFLOPS

66% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

3840

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

240

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

81st of 586

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

HBM2

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q vs Radeon VII comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q GPU is faster than the Radeon VII in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon VII has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon VII also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 16 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon VII at 300 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q is better than the Radeon VII.