AMD Radeon Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, API support, Memory, Technologies, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 7

  • 2.3x more pipelines: 448 vs 192
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 65 nm
  • 2.3x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 896 MB
Pipelines 448 vs 192
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 896 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

Name AMD Radeon Vega 7 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1262
PassMark - G3D Mark 1215
PassMark - G2D Mark 56
Geekbench - OpenCL 19512
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 8.664
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 477.327
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 24.906
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 29.525
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3342

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Vega 7 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

Essentials

Architecture Vega Tesla 2.0
Code name Renoir GT200
Launch date Q1'2020 16 June 2008
Place in performance rating 1410 1407
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $449
Price now $95.38
Value for money (0-100) 13.70

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 448 192
Core clock speed 1242 MHz
CUDA cores 192
Floating-point performance 476.9 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C
Texture fill rate 36.9 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 182 Watt
Transistor count 1,400 million

Video outputs and ports

Number of simultaneous displays 3
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Dual Link DVIHDTV
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

API support

DirectX 12.1 10.0
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 896 MB
Memory bandwidth 111.9 GB / s
Memory bus width 448 Bit
Memory clock speed 999 MHz
Memory type GDDR3

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options 2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin