AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 33% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1201 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
Launch date 7 Jan 2020 vs 26 November 2015
Boost clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1201 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

  • 2.3x more pipelines: 1024 vs 448
Pipelines 1024 vs 448

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1069
Geekbench - OpenCL 11203
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 76.687
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 890.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 28.659

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Vega Maxwell 2.0
Code name Vega Raven Ridge GM206
Launch date 7 Jan 2020 26 November 2015
Place in performance rating 1317 978
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1600 MHz 1201 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 448 1024
Core clock speed 1176 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,460 gflops
Texture fill rate 76.86 GTexel / s
Transistor count 2,940 million

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz
Memory type GDDR5