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AMD Radeon PRO W7900 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000: Comparison

AMD Radeon PRO W7900 and NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000 separate most on boost clock: AMD Radeon PRO W7900 at 2495 MHz, NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000 at 1800 MHz, 28% in favour of AMD Radeon PRO W7900. Card Length splits them by another 14%, this time favouring NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000. They match on 7 other specifications, including vram, tier and memory type.

AMD Radeon PRO W7900
AMDAMD Radeon PRO W7900
NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000
NVIDIANVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000

Specs

Specification
AMD Radeon PRO W7900
AMD Radeon PRO W7900
NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000
NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000
GPU BrandAMDNVIDIA
SeriesRadeon PRO W7000RTX Ampere Generation
Board PartnerAMD Reference (workstation, no AIB partners)NVIDIA Reference (workstation, no AIB partners)
VRAM48 GB48 GB
TierFlagshipFlagship
Memory TypeGDDR6GDDR6
Boost Clock2495 MHz1800 MHz-28%
Ray Tracing Supporttruetrue
TDP295 W300 W-2%
ArchitectureRDNA 3Ampere
Process NodeTSMC 5nmSamsung 8nm
Card Length304 mm-14%267 mm
Slot Width22
Memory Bus Width384 bit384 bit
Memory Bandwidth864 GB/s768 GB/s-11%
Recommended PSU545 W550 W-1%
Power Connector2x 8-pin1x 8-pin
MSRP34994650
Launch Date2023-042020-10
Base / Game Clock1500 MHz1410 MHz
PCIe InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Display Outputs4x DisplayPort 2.14x DisplayPort 1.4a
Media EngineAV1 + H.264/HEVC encode/decode2x NVENC (7th gen), 2x NVDEC

Verdict

AMD Radeon PRO W7900

8.4 / 10 Expert Rating

The best AMD professional GPU for VRAM-hungry workloads, held back only by narrower renderer/AI software support compared to NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem.

NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000

7.9 / 10 Expert Rating

Still a genuinely useful 48GB workstation card on the secondhand market, even four years after launch - just expect a real gap versus current RTX PRO Blackwell cards in ray tracing and AI performance.

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