Radeon Vega 7 vs GeForce 7800 GTX

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce 7800 GTX with Radeon Vega 7, including specs and performance data.

7800 GTX
2005
256 MB GDDR3, 86 Watt
0.75

Vega 7 outperforms 7800 GTX by a whopping 896% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1156532
Place by popularitynot in top-10018
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency0.6011.38
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameG70Cezanne
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date22 June 2005 (19 years ago)13 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 coresno data448
Core clock speed430 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1900 MHz
Number of transistors302 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)86 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate10.3253.20
Floating-point processing powerno data1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs2428

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16IGP
Length228 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed600 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth38.4 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_1)
Shader Model3.06.4
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.2

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD2−3
−1000%
22
+1000%
1440p3−4
−967%
32
+967%
4K1−2
−1500%
16
+1500%

Cost per frame, $

1080p299.50no data
1440p199.67no data
4K599.00no data

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.75 7.47
Recency 22 June 2005 13 April 2021
Chip lithography 110 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 86 Watt 45 Watt

Vega 7 has a 896% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 15 years, a 1471.4% more advanced lithography process, and 91.1% lower power consumption.

The Radeon Vega 7 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 7800 GTX in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce 7800 GTX is a desktop card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.


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