Radeon Vega 7 vs GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition and Radeon Vega 7, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

GTX 780M Mac Edition
2013
4 GB GDDR5, 122 Watt
6.70

Vega 7 outperforms GTX 780M Mac Edition by a moderate 11% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking563532
Place by popularitynot in top-10018
Power efficiency3.7611.38
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGK104Cezanne
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date8 November 2013 (11 years ago)13 April 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 cores1536448
Core clock speed771 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed797 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)122 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate102.053.20
Floating-point processing power2.448 TFLOPS1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs12828

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)IGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/sno data
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 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.1.1261.2
CUDA3.0-

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 HD18−20
−22.2%
22
+22.2%
1440p27−30
−18.5%
32
+18.5%
4K14−16
−14.3%
16
+14.3%

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 6.70 7.47
Recency 8 November 2013 13 April 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 122 Watt 45 Watt

Vega 7 has a 11.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 171.1% lower power consumption.

The Radeon Vega 7 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition in performance tests.


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