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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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