Radeon Vega 7 vs NVS 315

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared NVS 315 with Radeon Vega 7, including specs and performance data.

NVS 315
2013
1 GB DDR3, 19 Watt
0.90

Vega 7 outperforms NVS 315 by a whopping 730% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1126531
Place by popularitynot in top-10018
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.07no data
Power efficiency3.2511.39
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGF119Cezanne
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date10 March 2013 (11 years ago)13 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 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 cores48448
Core clock speed523 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1900 MHz
Number of transistors292 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate4.18453.20
Floating-point processing power0.1004 TFLOPS1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs828

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 2.0 x16IGP
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed875 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth14 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors1x DMS-59No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA2.1-

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, $

1080p79.50no data
1440p53.00no data
4K159.00no data

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.90 7.47
Recency 10 March 2013 13 April 2021
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 45 Watt

NVS 315 has 136.8% lower power consumption.

Vega 7, on the other hand, has a 730% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon Vega 7 is our recommended choice as it beats the NVS 315 in performance tests.

Be aware that NVS 315 is a workstation card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.


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