AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs Vega 11

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 7 with 7 pipelines and 448 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months older Vega 11 that utilizes 11 pipelines and 704 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX Vega 11 over RX Vega 7
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 7
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 11
  • Performs slightly better (up to 14%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Has 57% more shading units (704 vs 448)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
19
10
-
-
The Witcher 3 -
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2 -
22
16
11
-
Far Cry 6 -
16
14
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy -
9
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
20
14
12
-
Ghost of Tsushima -
12
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077 -
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
14
13
9
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 14
1080p Ultra - 10
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error High Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
947
RX Vega 11 +14%
1082
Time Spy 1067 1148
Fire Strike 3394 3781
Wild Life Extreme 2013 2424
Night Raid 13085 14555
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX Vega 7 +8%
14408
13375
Background Blur 33.7 img/sec 33.1 img/sec
Face Detection 15.4 img/sec 14.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.35 Gpixels/sec 0.45 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.76 Gpixels/sec 0.72 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.69 Gpixels/sec 0.6 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.21 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 54.7 Gpixels/sec 45.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1957.6 FPS 1490.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX Vega 7 +8%
2250
2087
G2D Mark 568 504
DirectX 11 16 FPS 13 FPS
DirectX 12 11 FPS 11 FPS
GPU Compute 1215 Ops/s 1342 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 88 & 4504 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
n/a
88.84
Sources: Blender [9] – 17 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX Vega 7 +13%
3157
2806
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX Vega 7 +5%
4191
3981
GB6 ML Quantized
RX Vega 7 +14%
2365
2067
Image Classification (SP) 1323 1115
Image Segmentation (HP) 1675 1530
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2919 2611
Face Detection (HP) 4386 3671
Pose Estimation (Q) 9348 9385
Text Classification (SP) 1024 972
Machine Translation (HP) 1888 1490
Object Detection (SP) 1452 1196
Depth Estimation (Q) 5272 4845
Style Transfer (SP) 19585 21060
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 7 and Vega 11

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2020 February 13, 2018
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Raven GCN 5.0
GPU Codename - Raven
Rival Equivalent - - GeForce MX250
Successor - Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5500U or above - AMD Ryzen 5 2400G or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 5 7430U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7530U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5625U
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
- AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
- and 4 more
- AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
- AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Laptop GPU ranking (121st and 146th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1500-2000 MHz (configurable) 1250-1400 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 448 704
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 28 44
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 7 11
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 12-16 GPixel/s 20-22 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 42-56 GTexel/s 55-62 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.3-1.8 TFLOPS
RX Vega 11 +11%
1.8-2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP IGP
TGP 15 W 25 W
Manufacturing TSMC GlobalFoundries
Fabrication Process 7 nm 14 nm
Die Size - 210 mm²
Transistor Count - 4.94 billion
Transistor Density - 23.52 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
Memory Clock System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
Effective Memory Speed System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12.1 12
Vulkan - 1.2.131
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.0
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No

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