AMD Radeon Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 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 - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 7

  • Around 94% higher boost clock speed: 1900 MHz vs 980 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
Boost clock speed 1900 MHz vs 980 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

  • 3x more pipelines: 1344 vs 448
  • Around 46% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1839 vs 1262
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 1344 vs 448
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1839 vs 1262

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
1262
1839
Name AMD Radeon Vega 7 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1262 1839
PassMark - G3D Mark 5345
PassMark - G2D Mark 537
Geekbench - OpenCL 15511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 41.613
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 971.208
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.281
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 40.404
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 86.208
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7038
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3686
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7038
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3686
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Vega 7 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Essentials

Architecture Vega Kepler
Code name Renoir GK104
Launch date Q1'2020 10 May 2012
Place in performance rating 1044 554
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $399
Price now $474.99
Value for money (0-100) 13.20

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1900 MHz 980 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 448 1344
Core clock speed 980 MHz
CUDA cores 1344
Floating-point performance 2,459.5 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 97 °C
Texture fill rate 102.5 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 170 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million

Video outputs and ports

Number of simultaneous displays 3
Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI..., 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.2

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed 6.0 GB/s
Memory type GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 9.5" (24.1 cm)
SLI options 3-way
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pin