Radeon Vega 7 vs GeForce GTX 950A

Place in the ranking	562	529
Place by popularity	not in top-100	39
Power efficiency	6.11	11.48
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code name	GM107	Cezanne
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	13 March 2015 (9 years ago)	13 April 2021 (3 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 cores	640	448
Core clock speed	993 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz	1900 MHz
Number of transistors	1,870 million	9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	45 Watt
Texture fill rate	44.96	53.20
Floating-point processing power	1.439 TFLOPS	1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	8
TMUs	40	28

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).

Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	IGP
Width	no data	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	DDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1001 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	32.03 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	no data	-

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 Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.2
CUDA	5.0	-

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 HD	18−20 −22.2%	22 +22.2%
1440p	24−27 −16.7%	28 +16.7%
4K	16−18 −25%	20 +25%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	6.62	7.46
Recency	13 March 2015	13 April 2021
Chip lithography	28 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	45 Watt

Vega 7 has a 12.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

The Radeon Vega 7 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 950A in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 950A is a notebook card while Radeon Vega 7 is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.