RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation vs Radeon Vega 7

Place in the ranking	536	49
Place by popularity	12	not in top-100
Power efficiency	11.43	53.06
Architecture	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	Cezanne	AD104
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	13 April 2021 (3 years ago)	21 March 2023 (1 year 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	448	6144
Core clock speed	300 MHz	720 MHz
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz	1560 MHz
Number of transistors	9,800 million	35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	70 Watt
Texture fill rate	53.20	299.5
Floating-point processing power	1.702 TFLOPS	19.17 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	80
TMUs	28	192
Tensor Cores	no data	192
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	48

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	168 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	System Shared	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	20 GB
Memory bus width	System Shared	160 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	280.0 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

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

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	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.1	3.0
Vulkan	1.2	1.3
CUDA	-	8.9

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	23 −596%	160−170 +596%
1440p	25 −620%	180−190 +620%
4K	15 −567%	100−110 +567%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2

16−18
−588%

110−120

+588%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5	24−27 −608%	170−180 +608%
Counter-Strike 2	16−18 −588%	110−120 +588%
Forza Horizon 4	29 −590%	200−210 +590%
Forza Horizon 5	18 −567%	120−130 +567%
Metro Exodus	21 −614%	150−160 +614%
Red Dead Redemption 2	27 −604%	190−200 +604%
Valorant	29 −590%	200−210 +590%

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5	24−27 −608%	170−180 +608%
Counter-Strike 2	16−18 −588%	110−120 +588%
Dota 2	17 −606%	120−130 +606%
Far Cry 5	28 −614%	200−210 +614%
Fortnite	40−45 −582%	300−310 +582%
Forza Horizon 4	24 −608%	170−180 +608%
Forza Horizon 5	16−18 −606%	120−130 +606%
Metro Exodus	15 −567%	100−105 +567%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	46 −552%	300−310 +552%
Red Dead Redemption 2	21−24 −614%	150−160 +614%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	21−24 −596%	160−170 +596%
Valorant	14 −614%	100−105 +614%
World of Tanks	58 −590%	400−450 +590%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	24−27 −608%	170−180 +608%
Counter-Strike 2	16−18 −588%	110−120 +588%
Far Cry 5	30−35 −597%	230−240 +597%
Forza Horizon 4	21 −614%	150−160 +614%
Forza Horizon 5	12 −608%	85−90 +608%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	60−65 −567%	400−450 +567%
Valorant	25 −620%	180−190 +620%

1440p
High Preset

Dota 2	9−10 −567%	60−65 +567%
Red Dead Redemption 2	6−7 −567%	40−45 +567%
World of Tanks	50−55 −548%	350−400 +548%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	12−14 −592%	90−95 +592%
Counter-Strike 2	6−7 −567%	40−45 +567%
Far Cry 5	16−18 −588%	110−120 +588%
Forza Horizon 4	14−16 −567%	100−105 +567%
Forza Horizon 5	10−12 −582%	75−80 +582%
Metro Exodus	10−12 −582%	75−80 +582%
Valorant	18−20 −584%	130−140 +584%

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	12−14 −608%	85−90 +608%
Dota 2	18−20 −567%	120−130 +567%
Metro Exodus	3−4 −600%	21−24 +600%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	21−24 −582%	150−160 +582%
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6 −600%	35−40 +600%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	18−20 −567%	120−130 +567%

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	6−7 −567%	40−45 +567%
Counter-Strike 2	12−14 −608%	85−90 +608%
Far Cry 5	9−10 −567%	60−65 +567%
Fortnite	7−8 −614%	50−55 +614%
Forza Horizon 4	9−10 −567%	60−65 +567%
Forza Horizon 5	5−6 −600%	35−40 +600%
Valorant	7−8 −614%	50−55 +614%

This is how Vega 7 and RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation compete in popular games:

RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation is 596% faster in 1080p
RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation is 620% faster in 1440p
RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation is 567% faster in 4K

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	7.19	51.90
Recency	13 April 2021	21 March 2023
Chip lithography	7 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	70 Watt

Vega 7 has 55.6% lower power consumption.

RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation, on the other hand, has a 621.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon Vega 7 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook card while RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation is a workstation one.

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