AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 629.99
$ 336.70
$ 293.29 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points
186% significantly better overall score
4933 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS
172 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
114 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS
143 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
65 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS
179 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS
73 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
49 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4065 points
7843 points
92% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
2173.35 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

170008 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
85184 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114610 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
66795 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points
97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
84977 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points
116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
79052 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz
81% significantly higher core clock speed
1005 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz
45% significantly higher boost clock speed
1545 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB
100% significantly more memory
8 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
23% slightly higher memory bandwidth
416 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W
160 W
87% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s
191% significantly higher pixel rate
98.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

720 Gigatexels/s
223% significantly higher texture rate
222.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.04 TFLOPS
223% significantly better floating point performance
7.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120
122% significantly more shading units
2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
122% significantly more texture mapping units
144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128
100% significantly more render output processors
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 586
103rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
-

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August
2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 6900 XT vs Quadro RTX 4000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU is faster than the Quadro RTX 4000 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6900 XT 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 RX 6900 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6900 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 Quadro RTX 4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6900 XT 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 Radeon RX 6900 XT is better than the Quadro RTX 4000.

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