Radeon RX 7950 XTX vs RX Vega 3

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	772	not rated
Place by popularity	80	not in top-100
Power efficiency	13.76	no data
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code name	Picasso	Navi 31
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)	no data (2024 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	192	6144
Core clock speed	300 MHz	2200 MHz
Boost clock speed	1001 MHz	3300 MHz
Number of transistors	4,940 million	57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	355 Watt
Texture fill rate	12.01	1,267
Floating-point processing power	0.3844 TFLOPS	81.1 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	192
TMUs	12	384
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	96

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	IGP	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	287 mm
Width	IGP	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin

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	System Shared	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	24 GB
Memory bus width	System Shared	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	960.0 GB/s
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 Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	2.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography	14 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	355 Watt

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