AMD Radeon Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 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 960

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 7

Around 61% higher boost clock speed: 1900 MHz vs 1178 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
7.8x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1262 vs 162

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz vs 1178 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1262 vs 162

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

2.3x more pipelines: 1024 vs 448

Pipelines	1024 vs 448

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1262

162

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1262	162
PassMark - G3D Mark		6111
PassMark - G2D Mark		673
Geekbench - OpenCL		18734
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		73.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		792.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.888
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		35.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		200.825
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3335

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Renoir	GM206
Launch date	Q1'2020	22 January 2015
Place in performance rating	1044	514
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Price now		$229.99
Value for money (0-100)		34.63
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz	1178 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	448	1024
Core clock speed		1127 MHz
CUDA cores		1024
Floating-point performance		2,413 gflops
Texture fill rate		72 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		120 Watt
Transistor count		2,940 million
Video outputs and ports
Number of simultaneous displays	3
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
Display Connectors		Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth		112 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		7.0 GB/s
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
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)
Recommended system power (PSU)		400 Watt
SLI options		2x
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pins