Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and RTX A2000 Max-Q - video card comparison

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

RTX A2000 Max-Q

Architecture

GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Vega 10

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

June 2017

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1600 MHz

1207 MHz

Core clock speed

1382 MHz

Floating-point performance

13,107 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

12,500 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

95 Watt

Texture fill rate

409.6

96.56

Memory type

HBM2

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

2048 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1890 MHz

11 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

483.8 GB/s

176.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.1.125

1.3