Radeon Vega 7 vs Quadro RTX 5000

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Quadro RTX 5000 with Radeon Vega 7, including specs and performance data.

RTX 5000
2018
16 GB GDDR6, 230 Watt
41.47
+455%

RTX 5000 outperforms Vega 7 by a whopping 455% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking99532
Place by popularitynot in top-10018
Cost-effectiveness evaluation14.20no data
Power efficiency12.4211.43
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU104Cezanne
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)13 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,299 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores3072448
Core clock speed1620 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1815 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)230 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate348.553.20
Floating-point processing power11.15 TFLOPS1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs648
TMUs19228
Tensor Cores384no data
Ray Tracing Cores48no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount16 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth448.0 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA7.5-

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 HD120−130
+445%
22
−445%
1440p170−180
+431%
32
−431%
4K85−90
+431%
16
−431%

Cost per frame, $

1080p19.16no data
1440p13.52no data
4K27.05no data

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 41.47 7.47
Recency 13 August 2018 13 April 2021
Chip lithography 12 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 230 Watt 45 Watt

RTX 5000 has a 455.2% higher aggregate performance score.

Vega 7, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 71.4% more advanced lithography process, and 411.1% lower power consumption.

The Quadro RTX 5000 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon Vega 7 in performance tests.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 5000 is a workstation card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.


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