AMD Radeon Pro W5700X vs NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile Comparison

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X and NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile represent two very different approaches to professional graphics, and the benchmark data reflects that divergence clearly. In the two head-to-head tests available, the NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile wins both, but the margins are far from uniform, and the AMD card’s raw specification advantages tell a more complex story than the win/loss tally alone suggests. The RTX A1000 Mobile leads by 10.0% in Geekbench OpenCL and by a narrower 3.3% in Geekbench Vulkan, yet the Radeon Pro W5700X carries substantially higher peak throughput figures and a much larger memory pool, indicating that these benchmark results capture only a slice of the two cards’ overall performance profiles.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The most decisive result in the comparison is in the Geekbench OpenCL test, where the NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile scores 48,703 against the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X’s 43,810. That 10.0% delta is the largest gap between the two cards in any measured test, and it flips the expected hierarchy based on raw compute specifications. The AMD card’s FP32 throughput is listed at 10.44 TFLOPS, more than double the RTX A1000 Mobile’s 4.669 TFLOPS, yet the NVIDIA part still manages to outperform it in this particular workload. This suggests that OpenCL on the Radeon Pro W5700X is not extracting the full potential from its hardware, or that the NVIDIA driver stack and Ampere architecture are particularly efficient at translating compute resources into benchmark scores.

The second head-to-head test, Geekbench Vulkan, shows a much tighter race. The RTX A1000 Mobile scores 46,782, while the Radeon Pro W5700X trails at 45,246, a difference of just 3.3%. This narrower margin indicates that Vulkan is a more favorable API for the AMD card, closing more than two-thirds of the gap seen in OpenCL. The data shows that the Radeon Pro W5700X’s Vulkan score of 45,246 is actually closer to its OpenCL result of 43,810 than the NVIDIA card’s scores are to each other, with the RTX A1000 Mobile dropping from 48,703 in OpenCL to 46,782 in Vulkan. This pattern suggests the AMD architecture responds better to Vulkan’s lower-level control, while NVIDIA’s advantage is more pronounced in the OpenCL environment.

Looking at the broader context, the Radeon Pro W5700X’s average benchmark score of 54,828 places it in the 87th percentile of all GPUs, with its nearest rival being the AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB at 55,698, which is 1.6% ahead, and the AMD Radeon 8060S at 55,757, which is 1.7% ahead. The RTX A1000 Mobile’s average of 47,743 sits in the 85th percentile, with its closest competitor being the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT at 48,477, a 1.5% margin, and the AMD Radeon RX 6550M at 46,702 trailing by 2.2%. These percentile rankings put the two cards only two percentile points apart, despite the RTX A1000 Mobile winning both direct head-to-head tests, because the Radeon Pro W5700X’s Geekbench Metal score of 75,427 — a test the NVIDIA card did not run — boosts its average substantially.

The Verdict

The data points to a clear but nuanced conclusion: the NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile is the better choice for OpenCL and Vulkan benchmark performance, winning both shared tests, but the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X is the stronger card for Metal-based workloads, where it scores 75,427, a figure no other benchmark in the pack approaches. For users whose primary applications rely on OpenCL or Vulkan, the RTX A1000 Mobile’s consistent wins — 10.0% in OpenCL and 3.3% in Vulkan — make it the data-backed pick. The RTX A1000 Mobile also has a significant power efficiency advantage, with a 60 W TDP versus the Radeon Pro W5700X’s 205 W, and it requires no power connectors while the AMD card lists a 550 W suggested PSU.

However, the Radeon Pro W5700X is not without its own strengths. Its 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus delivers 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth, compared to the RTX A1000 Mobile’s 4 GB on a 128-bit bus with 176.0 GB/s. For workloads that are memory-capacity-bound, the AMD card offers four times the VRAM, which can be decisive for large datasets or high-resolution textures even if raw compute benchmarks favor the NVIDIA part. The Radeon Pro W5700X also has a much higher peak pixel rate at 130.6 GPixel/s versus 36.48 GPixel/s, and a texture rate of 326.4 GTexel/s against 72.96 GTexel/s, indicating that fill-rate-heavy tasks would likely favor the AMD card despite its benchmark losses. The choice ultimately depends on whether the user prioritizes the benchmark-verified OpenCL and Vulkan wins of the RTX A1000 Mobile or the theoretical throughput and memory capacity of the Radeon Pro W5700X.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU wins the Geekbench OpenCL benchmark?

A: The NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile wins with a score of 48,703, beating the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X’s 43,810 by 10.0%.

Q: How much faster is the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X in memory bandwidth?

A: The Radeon Pro W5700X has a memory bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s, which is 2.5 times the RTX A1000 Mobile’s 176.0 GB/s.

Q: What is the average benchmark score for each GPU?

A: The AMD Radeon Pro W5700X has an average benchmark score of 54,828, while the NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile averages 47,743.

Q: Does the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X have a higher transistor density than the RTX A1000 Mobile?

A: No, the RTX A1000 Mobile has a higher transistor density at 43.5M / mm², compared to the Radeon Pro W5700X’s 41.0M / mm².

Q: Which GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate?

A: Only the NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2); the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X supports DirectX 12 (12_1).

Q: What is the launch MSRP of the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X?

A: The launch MSRP is 999 USD.

Specification Differences

The two GPUs differ across nearly every core specification category. The AMD Radeon Pro W5700X uses a 7 nm TSMC process, while the NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile uses an 8 nm Samsung process. The AMD chip, Navi 10, contains 10,300 million transistors on a 251 mm² die, whereas the NVIDIA GA107 chip has 8,700 million transistors on a 200 mm² die. Transistor density is slightly higher on the NVIDIA part at 43.5M / mm² versus 41.0M / mm². Clock speeds diverge sharply: the Radeon Pro W5700X runs at a 1243 MHz base and 2040 MHz boost, while the RTX A1000 Mobile operates at 630 MHz base and 1140 MHz boost. Memory configurations are vastly different, with the AMD card offering 16 GB GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus at 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) for 448.0 GB/s bandwidth, and the NVIDIA card providing 4 GB GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus at 1375 MHz (11 Gbps effective) for 176.0 GB/s.

Compute unit counts show the AMD card with 2560 shading units, 160 TMUs, and 64 ROPs, while the NVIDIA card has 2048 shading units, 64 TMUs, and 32 ROPs. The RTX A1000 Mobile additionally includes 16 RT cores and 64 tensor cores, features entirely absent from the Radeon Pro W5700X. Pixel and texture rates favor the AMD card heavily, with 130.6 GPixel/s and 326.4 GTexel/s versus 36.48 GPixel/s and 72.96 GTexel/s. FP32 performance is 10.44 TFLOPS on the AMD side versus 4.669 TFLOPS on the NVIDIA side, and FP16 performance is 20.89 TFLOPS (2:1) for AMD versus 4.669 TFLOPS (1:1) for NVIDIA. Power consumption is a major differentiator: 205 W TDP for the Radeon Pro W5700X versus 60 W for the RTX A1000 Mobile, which also lacks power connectors and has no suggested PSU rating, while the AMD card lists a 550 W suggested PSU.

Form factors are entirely different, with the Radeon Pro W5700X being quad-slot and 305 mm (12 inches) long, using an Apple MPX bus interface, while the RTX A1000 Mobile is an IGP with PCIe 4.0 x8. Display outputs also differ, with the AMD card offering 1x HDMI 2.0b and 4x Thunderbolt, while the NVIDIA card’s outputs are portable device dependent. The AMD card supports DirectX 12 (12_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, while the NVIDIA card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. Release dates are separated by over two years, with the Radeon Pro W5700X launching on 2019-12-10 and the RTX A1000 Mobile on 2022-03-29, with the latter having a predecessor of Quadro Turing-M and a successor of Ada-MW, while the AMD card has neither listed.

Architecture Differences

The architectural divide stems from fundamentally different design philosophies. The AMD Radeon Pro W5700X is built on RDNA 1.0, the first generation of AMD’s RDNA architecture, fabricated on a 7 nm TSMC process. This architecture prioritizes raw throughput and efficiency per clock, which is reflected in its high boost clock of 2040 MHz and its FP32 compute of 10.44 TFLOPS. The RDNA 1.0 design does not include dedicated ray tracing cores or tensor cores, relying instead on traditional shading units for all compute tasks. The 10,300 million transistors are organized into 2560 shading units, 160 TMUs, and 64 ROPs, with a 256-bit memory interface feeding 16 GB of GDDR6 at 448.0 GB/s. The architecture also supports a 2:1 FP16 rate, effectively doubling the FP16 throughput to 20.89 TFLOPS, which is a significant advantage for workloads that can use reduced precision.

The NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile is built on the Ampere architecture, specifically the GA107 chip, manufactured on an 8 nm Samsung process. Ampere is a more recent design that incorporates dedicated hardware for ray tracing (16 RT cores) and AI acceleration (64 tensor cores), features the RDNA 1.0 architecture lacks entirely. The NVIDIA card’s shading units number 2048, with 64 TMUs and 32 ROPs, and it uses a 128-bit memory interface for 4 GB of GDDR6 at 176.0 GB/s. The FP16 rate is 1:1 with FP32 at 4.669 TFLOPS, meaning it does not gain any advantage from half-precision compute, unlike the AMD card’s 2:1 rate. The Ampere architecture also supports DirectX 12 Ultimate with features like hardware ray tracing and variable rate shading, while the RDNA 1.0 card only supports DirectX 12 (12_1) without those capabilities.

The transistor density is marginally higher on the NVIDIA chip at 43.5M / mm² versus 41.0M / mm², despite the older 8 nm process, indicating a more compact design. The clock speeds tell a different story, with the AMD card running at nearly double the boost frequency (2040 MHz vs 1140 MHz), which contributes to its much higher pixel and texture fill rates. The power envelope is the most dramatic difference: the Radeon Pro W5700X draws 205 W and requires a 550 W PSU, while the RTX A1000 Mobile operates at just 60 W with no external power connectors, making it suitable for portable devices. The bus interfaces also reflect their intended use cases, with the AMD card using Apple MPX for Mac Pro systems and the NVIDIA card using PCIe 4.0 x8 for mobile integration.

Where Each One Wins

The benchmark results show the NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile winning in OpenCL and Vulkan, which are the only two tests both cards ran. In OpenCL, the NVIDIA card’s 48,703 score beats the AMD card’s 43,810 by 10.0%, and in Vulkan, it edges ahead with 46,782 versus 45,246, a 3.3% margin. These wins indicate that the RTX A1000 Mobile is the better choice for compute workloads that rely on these APIs, particularly in environments where the NVIDIA driver stack is well-optimized. The RTX A1000 Mobile also has a massive power efficiency advantage, with a 60 W TDP versus 205 W, making it suitable for battery-powered or thermally constrained systems, and it includes RT cores and tensor cores for ray tracing and AI workloads that the AMD card cannot accelerate.

The AMD Radeon Pro W5700X’s wins are not in the head-to-head benchmarks but in its raw specification sheet and its Geekbench Metal score of 75,427, which is the highest single benchmark score in the entire data set. This Metal score indicates that the Radeon Pro W5700X is the clear winner for Apple ecosystem workloads, particularly in macOS environments where Metal is the primary graphics API. The AMD card also wins decisively in memory capacity and bandwidth, offering 16 GB and 448.0 GB/s versus the RTX A1000 Mobile’s 4 GB and 176.0 GB/s, which is critical for large texture sets, high-resolution rendering, or machine learning datasets that exceed 4 GB. Its pixel rate of 130.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 326.4 GTexel/s are 3.6 times and 4.5 times higher than the NVIDIA card respectively, suggesting it would win in fill-rate-bound scenarios if benchmarked.

For use-case selection, the data supports the RTX A1000 Mobile for OpenCL and Vulkan compute tasks, ray tracing, and AI inference, as well as any power-sensitive mobile deployment. The Radeon Pro W5700X is the better choice for Metal-based workflows, memory-intensive applications that require more than 4 GB of VRAM, and scenarios where raw fill rate or FP16 compute (20.89 TFLOPS) is the bottleneck. The average benchmark scores place the AMD card at 54,828 versus 47,743 for the NVIDIA card, a 14.8% difference in the AMD’s favor, but this is driven entirely by the Metal score, which the NVIDIA card did not participate in. Without the Metal test, the NVIDIA card wins both shared benchmarks, so the decision hinges on the API and platform the user actually targets.