RTX A500 vs Radeon Vega 7

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon Vega 7 with RTX A500, including specs and performance data.

Vega 7
2021
45 Watt
7.47

RTX A500 outperforms Vega 7 by a whopping 135% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking532312
Place by popularity18not in top-100
Power efficiency11.3820.06
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameCezanneGA107
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date13 April 2021 (3 years ago)10 November 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 cores4482048
Core clock speed300 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speed1900 MHz1770 MHz
Number of transistors9,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate53.20113.3
Floating-point processing power1.702 TFLOPS7.25 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2864
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data112.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA-8.6

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 HD22
−127%
50−55
+127%
1440p32
−134%
75−80
+134%
4K16
−119%
35−40
+119%

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 7.47 17.56
Recency 13 April 2021 10 November 2021
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 60 Watt

Vega 7 has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

RTX A500, on the other hand, has a 135.1% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 6 months.

The RTX A500 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 A500 is a workstation one.


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