NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation & RTX 4000 Ada Generation Linux Performance
When taking the geometric mean of all the performance benchmarks carried out for these professional/creator/workstation GPU workloads, the RTX 4000 Ada Generation was around 12% faster than the AMD Radeon Pro W7700. The Radeon Pro W7700 does have the advantage of having a $749 USD retail price compared to the $1250 list price for the RTX 4000 Ada Generation, but via Amazon and other retailers in recent times can be found priced more aggressively at around $865. The RTX 2000 Ada Generation meanwhile was matching the Radeon Pro W7600, which is priced similar to each other.
👁 NVIDIA RTX 2000 and RTX 4000 Ada Generation graphics cards
The NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation and RTX 4000 Ada Generation graphics cards were leading especially well with workloads like Blender using the OptiX renderer and other workloads leveraging the RT cores. As we see very often on the consumer side, the NVIDIA software support in these creator/professional applications tend to be much better polished/optimized. AMD for their part have a fully open-source driver stack compared to NVIDIA's official driver just now having open-source kernel modules but retaining their proprietary user-space software, but at least in NVIDIA's case things tend to "just work" optimally.
Not only did the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation come out ahead of the Radeon Pro W7700 overall, but it did so while consuming less power than the W7700. On average the RTX 4000 Ada Generation was pulling 93 Watts with a peak of 130 Watts compared to the Radeon Pro W7700 having a 120 Watt average and a peak of 154 Watts. The RTX 2000 Ada Generation was running very well from the power efficiency angle as well with a 56 Watt average compared to the Radeon Pro W7500 with a 47 Watt average or the W7600 up at a 87 Watt average.
Keep in mind the RTX 2000 Ada Generation is a half-height graphics card and the RTX 4000 Ada Generation is a single-slot card, but even with those attributes on the GPU cooling side these graphics cards were in good shape for their thermal performance.
👁 NVIDIA RTX 2000 and RTX 4000 Ada Generation graphics cards from angle view
In the sub-$1000 USD space the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation and RTX 4000 Ada Generation proved to be great options across varying professional/creator workloads and running well atop the latest NVIDIA Linux driver with open-source kernel modules. Those wanting to explore all the individual data can do so via this result page. Thanks to NVIDIA for sending over the RTX 2000 Ada Generation and RTX 4000 Ada Generation graphics cards for review; if needing a bit more GPU performance there will be Phoronix tests of the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation later this month.
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