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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 vs Vega 7

Radeon RX Vega 6
VS
Radeon RX Vega 7
AMD Radeon RX Vega 6
Raven
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 6 with 6 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 2 years newer Vega 7 that utilizes 7 pipelines and 448 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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 7 over RX Vega 6
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 7
  • Performs slightly better (up to 16%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 29% higher maximum theoretical performance (1.8 vs 1.4 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 78% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (14K vs 8K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX Vega 6
vs
RX Vega 7

Games

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

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
RX Vega 6
816
RX Vega 7 +16%
947
Time Spy 839 1067
Fire Strike 2697 3394
Wild Life Extreme 1635 2013
Night Raid 11031 13085
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX Vega 6
8112
RX Vega 7 +78%
14408
Background Blur 17.6 img/sec 33.7 img/sec
Face Detection 9.06 img/sec 15.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.28 Gpixels/sec 0.35 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.58 Gpixels/sec 0.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.38 Gpixels/sec 0.69 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.09 Gpixels/sec 0.21 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 27.6 Gpixels/sec 54.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 879 FPS 1957.6 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 6
1317
RX Vega 7 +71%
2250
G2D Mark 329 568
DirectX 11 9 FPS 16 FPS
DirectX 12 6 FPS 11 FPS
GPU Compute 647 Ops/s 1215 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 495 & 88 samples
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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 6
2274
RX Vega 7 +39%
3157
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX Vega 6
2834
RX Vega 7 +48%
4191
GB6 ML Quantized
RX Vega 6
1738
RX Vega 7 +36%
2365
Image Classification (SP) 986 1323
Image Segmentation (HP) 1173 1675
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2200 2919
Face Detection (HP) 2979 4386
Pose Estimation (Q) 6497 9348
Text Classification (SP) 632 1024
Machine Translation (HP) 1306 1888
Object Detection (SP) 1093 1452
Depth Estimation (Q) 3935 5272
Style Transfer (SP) 13291 19585
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 6 and Vega 7

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 1, 2018 January 7, 2020
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture GCN 5.0 Raven
GPU Codename Raven -
Successor - - Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000)
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 4600H or above - AMD Ryzen 5 5500U or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 3 7330U
- AMD Ryzen 3 5425U
- AMD Ryzen 3 5300G
- AMD Ryzen 3 5300U
- AMD Ryzen 3 4300G
- AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
- AMD Ryzen 5 4500U		 - 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
Laptop GPU ranking (124th and 121st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-1800 MHz (configurable) 1500-2000 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 384 448
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 28
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 8
Compute Units (Pipelines) 6 7
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 9-14 GPixel/s 12-16 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 26-43 GTexel/s 42-56 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 6
0.8-1.4 TFLOPS
RX Vega 7 +29%
1.3-1.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP IGP
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 7 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 12.1
Vulkan 1.2 -
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.2
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No

Cast your vote

Choose between two graphics cards
4 (21.1%)
15 (78.9%)
Total votes: 19

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