Radeon RX Vega Mobile vs FirePro V7900

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking585not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.77no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameCaymanVega Mobile
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date24 May 2011 (13 years ago)7 January 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores12801792
Core clock speed725 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,640 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Watt90 Watt
Texture fill rate58.00no data
Floating-point processing power1.856 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs80no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
Bus supportPCIe 2.1 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Length279 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5HBM2
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth160 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors4x DisplayPortno data
StereoOutput3D+-
DisplayPort count4no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12_1
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 May 2011 7 January 2018
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 90 Watt

RX Vega Mobile has an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 67.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V7900 and Radeon RX Vega Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro V7900 is a workstation card while Radeon RX Vega Mobile is a notebook one.


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