AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Compare AMD Radeon VII 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Price

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$ 945.00

$ 863.63

$ 81.37 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6138 points

24895 points

305% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

107 FPS

529 FPS

421 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

100 FPS

351 FPS

250 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

106 FPS

477 FPS

371 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

207 FPS

151 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9129 points

33% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6837 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

817.47 points

4050.95 points

395% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92086 points

212685 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

91729 points

238996 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

1855 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1750 MHz

2500 MHz

42% much higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

24 GiB

49% significantly 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

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

960 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

18% slightly lower TDP

355 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

115.26 Gigapixels/s

480 Gigapixels/s

316% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

432.24 Gigatexels/s

960 Gigatexels/s

122% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.8 TFLOPS

61.42 TFLOPS

345% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

6144

60% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

384

60% 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

3rd 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 XTX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX beats the Radeon VII in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 7900 XTX 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 XTX also has a much higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon VII has a slightly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX at 355 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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