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).

AMD Radeon Vega 7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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		1219
PassMark - G2D Mark		57
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	1411	1408
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