Radeon RX Vega 3 vs R7 (Carrizo)

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R7 (Carrizo) with Radeon RX Vega 3, including specs and performance data.

R7 (Carrizo)
2015
12 Watt
2.00

RX Vega 3 outperforms R7 (Carrizo) by a considerable 49% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking882772
Place by popularitynot in top-10086
Power efficiency4.1214.33
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameCarrizoPicasso
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 June 2015 (9 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 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 cores512192
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1001 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data12.01
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3844 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data12

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataIGP
Widthno dataIGP
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 typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus width64/128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

R7 (Carrizo) 2.00
RX Vega 3 2.98
+49%

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

R7 (Carrizo) 5200
RX Vega 3 5441
+4.6%

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

R7 (Carrizo) 1792
+4%
RX Vega 3 1724

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

R7 (Carrizo) 1137
RX Vega 3 1172
+3%

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

R7 (Carrizo) 7431
RX Vega 3 8536
+14.9%

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

R7 (Carrizo) 61071
RX Vega 3 80755
+32.2%

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 HD9
−33.3%
12
+33.3%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−50%
6−7
+50%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
+0%
7
+0%
Battlefield 5 1−2
−400%
5−6
+400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−20%
6
+20%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−50%
6−7
+50%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−100%
6−7
+100%
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
−60%
8−9
+60%
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
−129%
16−18
+129%
Hitman 3 6−7
+20%
5
−20%
Horizon Zero Dawn 16−18
−29.4%
21−24
+29.4%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−50%
6
+50%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
−20%
12−14
+20%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−11.4%
35−40
+11.4%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−28.6%
9−10
+28.6%
Battlefield 5 1−2
−400%
5−6
+400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−40%
7−8
+40%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−50%
6−7
+50%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−100%
6−7
+100%
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
−60%
8−9
+60%
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
−129%
16−18
+129%
Hitman 3 6−7
−33.3%
8−9
+33.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn 16−18
−29.4%
21−24
+29.4%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
−10%
11
+10%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14
−21.4%
17
+21.4%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−11.4%
35−40
+11.4%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−28.6%
9−10
+28.6%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−40%
7−8
+40%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−50%
6−7
+50%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−100%
6−7
+100%
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
−129%
16−18
+129%
Hitman 3 6−7
−33.3%
8−9
+33.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn 16−18
+88.9%
9
−88.9%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
+11.1%
9
−11.1%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
+200%
4
−200%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−11.4%
35−40
+11.4%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 3−4
−66.7%
5−6
+66.7%
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
−33.3%
4−5
+33.3%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
−50%
3−4
+50%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
−100%
2−3
+100%
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Far Cry 5 2−3
−50%
3−4
+50%
Hitman 3 7−8
−14.3%
8−9
+14.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn 6−7
−33.3%
8−9
+33.3%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2
−100%
2−3
+100%
Watch Dogs: Legion 10−12
−63.6%
18−20
+63.6%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
−20%
6−7
+20%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
−100%
2−3
+100%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 0−1 1−2
Far Cry 5 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 0−1 1−2

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
−33.3%
4−5
+33.3%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 6
+0%
6
+0%
Metro Exodus 7
+0%
7
+0%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Metro Exodus 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Forza Horizon 4 0−1 0−1

This is how R7 (Carrizo) and RX Vega 3 compete in popular games:

  • RX Vega 3 is 33% faster in 1080p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with 1080p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the R7 (Carrizo) is 200% faster.
  • in Battlefield 5, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the RX Vega 3 is 400% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • R7 (Carrizo) is ahead in 4 tests (7%)
  • RX Vega 3 is ahead in 44 tests (75%)
  • there's a draw in 11 tests (19%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.00 2.98
Recency 4 June 2015 6 January 2019
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 15 Watt

R7 (Carrizo) has 25% lower power consumption.

RX Vega 3, on the other hand, has a 49% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon RX Vega 3 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R7 (Carrizo) in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R7 (Carrizo) is a notebook card while Radeon RX Vega 3 is a desktop one.


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

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