Radeon RX 6900 XT and A40 PCIe - video card comparison
Radeon RX 6900 XT
A40 PCIe
Architecture
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Navi 21
GA102
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2020
October 2020
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
2250 MHz
1755 MHz
Core clock speed
1825 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
26,800 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
5120
10752
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
720.0
589.7
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
16000 MHz
14.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
512.0 GB/s
695.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.5
Vulkan
1.2
1.2