AMD Radeon Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 7

Around 62% higher boost clock speed: 1900 MHz vs 1176 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
Around 3% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1262 vs 1231

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz vs 1176 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1262 vs 1231

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Around 43% higher pipelines: 640 vs 448
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Pipelines	640 vs 448
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

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

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1262

1231

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1262	1231
PassMark - G3D Mark		3366
PassMark - G2D Mark		245
Geekbench - OpenCL		10985
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		54.294
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		795.325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		51.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		174.513
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell
Code name	Renoir	GM107
Launch date	Q1'2020	13 March 2015
Place in performance rating	1044	735
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz	1176 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	448	640
Core clock speed		1096 MHz
CUDA cores		640
Floating-point performance		1,505 gflops
Texture fill rate		47.04 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		1,870 million
Video outputs and ports
Number of simultaneous displays	3
Display Connectors		No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support		1
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth		80 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		2500 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		medium sized