NVIDIA GK208 vs AMD Radeon VII

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking75not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money65.92no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2021)Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code nameVega 20GK208
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date7 February 2019 (5 years old)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$699 no data
Current price$160 (0.2x MSRP)$78
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3840384
Core clock speed1400 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1750 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,230 million1,020 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)295 Wattno data
Texture fill rate420.0no data

Size and 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 3.0 x16no data
Length305 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

Memory

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 typeHBM2no data
Maximum RAM amount16 GBno data
Memory bus width4096 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth1024 GB/sno data

Video outputs and ports

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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+no data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

NVENCno dataNo Support
PureVideo HDno dataVP5

API support

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.46.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.175
CUDAno data3.5

Advantages and disadvantages


Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm

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