RTX A2000 12 GB vs Radeon Vega 7

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon Vega 7 with RTX A2000 12 GB, including specs and performance data.

Vega 7
2021
45 Watt
7.47

RTX A2000 12 GB outperforms Vega 7 by a whopping 376% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking532142
Place by popularity18not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data88.68
Power efficiency11.3834.80
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameCezanneGA106
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date13 April 2021 (3 years ago)23 November 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$449

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 cores4483328
Core clock speed300 MHz562 MHz
Boost clock speed1900 MHz1200 MHz
Number of transistors9,800 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate53.20124.8
Floating-point processing power1.702 TFLOPS7.987 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs28104
Tensor Coresno data104
Ray Tracing Coresno data26

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 x16
Lengthno data167 mm
Widthno data2-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 Shared12 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared192 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data288.0 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 outputs4x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
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
−355%
100−110
+355%
1440p32
−369%
150−160
+369%
4K16
−369%
75−80
+369%

Cost per frame, $

1080pno data4.49
1440pno data2.99
4Kno data5.99

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 7.47 35.53
Recency 13 April 2021 23 November 2021
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 70 Watt

Vega 7 has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 55.6% lower power consumption.

RTX A2000 12 GB, on the other hand, has a 375.6% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 7 months.

The RTX A2000 12 GB 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 A2000 12 GB is a workstation one.


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