AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A4000

Price

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$ 519.00

$ 866.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1385.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

9568 points

34% slightly better overall score

7111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

196 FPS

21 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

175 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

143 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

88 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

173 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

119 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

65 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

16155 points

46% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

11018 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1896.07 points

3139.35 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

130322 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

116149 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93163 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

83390 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

130005 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

122638 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

133046 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

127645 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1815 MHz

146% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2105 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 MHz

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

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

140 W

78% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

202.1 Gigapixels/s

34% slightly higher pixel rate

149.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

505.2 Gigatexels/s

68% significantly higher texture rate

299.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.17 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

6144

60% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

25% slightly more texture mapping units

192

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 586

66th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6800 vs RTX A4000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6800 beats the RTX A4000 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 6800 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6800 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 16 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the RTX A4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6800 over the RTX A4000.