RTX A40 and Radeon RX 6950 XT - video card comparison

RTX A40

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GA102

Navi

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2020

May 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin EPS

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1755 MHz

2324 MHz

Core clock speed

-

1925 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

26,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

10752

5120

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

335 Watt

Texture fill rate

589.7

743.7

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

48 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

14.5 GB/s

18000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

695.8 GB/s

576.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

-

OpenCL

2.0

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.5

Vulkan

1.2

1.3