AMD Radeon Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 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).

AMD Radeon Vega 7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 7

Around 60% higher boost clock speed: 1900 MHz vs 1188 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
12x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1262 vs 105

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz vs 1188 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1262 vs 105

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Around 71% higher pipelines: 768 vs 448

Pipelines	768 vs 448

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1262

105

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1262	105
PassMark - G3D Mark		5340
PassMark - G2D Mark		641
Geekbench - OpenCL		16728
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		60.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		758.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.279
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		29.738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		231.508
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6803
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6803
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Renoir	GM206
Launch date	Q1'2020	20 August 2015
Place in performance rating	1044	547
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$159
Price now		$194.44
Value for money (0-100)		30.06
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz	1188 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	448	768
Core clock speed		1024 MHz
CUDA cores		768
Floating-point performance		1,825 gflops
Texture fill rate		49.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		90 Watt
Transistor count		2,940 million
Video outputs and ports
Number of simultaneous displays	3
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth		105.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		6.6 GB/s
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		7.938" (20.2 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		350 Watt
SLI options		2x
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pins