AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Compare AMD Radeon VII 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Price

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$ 945.00

$ 679.99

$ 265.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6138 points

19220 points

213% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

107 FPS

393 FPS

286 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

100 FPS

273 FPS

173 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

106 FPS

362 FPS

256 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

158 FPS

102 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9129 points

62% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5616 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

817.47 points

3540.90 points

333% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92086 points

187759 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

91729 points

213258 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

1800 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1750 MHz

2400 MHz

37% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

20 GiB

25% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

4096 Bit

966% significantly larger memory bus width

384 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

1024 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

800 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

5% slightly lower TDP

315 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

115.26 Gigapixels/s

460 Gigapixels/s

299% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

432.24 Gigatexels/s

810 Gigatexels/s

87% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.8 TFLOPS

54.07 TFLOPS

291% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

12288

220% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

768

220% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

79th of 586

10th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2022 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

HBM2

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon VII vs Radeon RX 7900 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon VII in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 7900 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7900 XT has slightly more memory with 20 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon VII has a slightly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XT at 315 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7900 XT is faster than the Radeon VII.