AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA GB10 Comparison

FAQ

Q: What are the average benchmark scores for the NVIDIA GB10 and AMD Radeon VII?

A: The NVIDIA GB10 has an average benchmark score of 117,393, placing it in the 95th percentile of all GPUs. The AMD Radeon VII has an average benchmark score of 66,004, placing it in the 90th percentile.

Q: How much faster is the NVIDIA GB10 in OpenCL and Vulkan workloads?

A: In Geekbench OpenCL, the GB10 scores 120,137 versus 91,947 for the Radeon VII, a 30.7% advantage. In Geekbench Vulkan, the GB10 scores 114,648 versus 91,788, a 24.9% advantage.

Q: What memory configurations do these two cards use?

A: The NVIDIA GB10 uses 128 GB of LPDDR5X on a 256-bit bus with 273.2 GB/s of bandwidth. The AMD Radeon VII uses 16 GB of HBM2 on a 4096-bit bus with 1.02 TB/s of bandwidth.

Q: What is the power draw difference between the two?

A: The NVIDIA GB10 has a TDP of 140 W and requires no power connectors, while the AMD Radeon VII has a TDP of 295 W and requires two 8-pin power connectors.

Q: Which card has a higher FP32 compute throughput?

A: The NVIDIA GB10 delivers 29.71 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, more than double the 13.44 TFLOPS of the AMD Radeon VII.

Q: What is the production status of each card?

A: The NVIDIA GB10 is listed as Active, while the AMD Radeon VII is End-of-life.

Where Each One Wins

The NVIDIA GB10 wins in both recorded head-to-head benchmarks. Its OpenCL score of 120,137 beats the Radeon VII's 91,947 by 30.7%, and its Vulkan score of 114,648 beats the Radeon VII's 91,788 by 24.9%. The GB10 also holds the broader compute advantage: 29.71 TFLOPS FP32 versus 13.44 TFLOPS, and 29.71 TFLOPS FP16 (1:1) versus 26.88 TFLOPS FP16 (2:1). The Radeon VII does not win any of the shared benchmark tests.

However, the Radeon VII has specific strengths outside compute throughput. Its memory bandwidth of 1.02 TB/s is nearly four times the GB10's 273.2 GB/s, which benefits bandwidth-bound workloads. The Radeon VII also has full API support for DirectX 12 (12_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.3, whereas the GB10 lists N/A for all three APIs. The Radeon VII's 64 ROPs exceed the GB10's 48 ROPs, giving it a higher pixel rate at 112.0 GPixel/s versus 116.1 GPixel/s for the GB10, though the GB10 still edges ahead in that specific metric. The Radeon VII supports standard display outputs with 1x HDMI 2.0b and 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, while the GB10 has only 1x HDMI.

Architecture Differences

The NVIDIA GB10 uses the GB20B chip on Blackwell 2.0 architecture, built on a 5 nm process at TSMC. The AMD Radeon VII uses the Vega 20 chip on GCN 5.1 architecture, built on a 7 nm process at TSMC. The GB10 belongs to the Server Blackwell (Bxx) generation, while the Radeon VII belongs to the Vega II generation.

The GB10 integrates 6,144 shading units, 384 texture mapping units, 48 ROPs, 48 ray tracing cores, and 384 tensor cores. The Radeon VII has 3,840 shading units, 240 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs, with no ray tracing cores or tensor cores listed. The GB10's tensor cores provide dedicated AI acceleration hardware that the Radeon VII lacks entirely.

The GB10 is an integrated graphics processor (IGP) with a 150 mm length, 51 mm height, and 150 mm width, requiring no power connectors and a 300 W suggested PSU. The Radeon VII is a dual-slot card measuring 280 mm in length, 125 mm in height, and 40 mm in width, requiring two 8-pin power connectors and a 600 W suggested PSU. The GB10 uses a PCIe 5.0 x16 interface, while the Radeon VII uses PCIe 3.0 x16.

The Radeon VII is built with 13,230 million transistors on a 331 mm² die with a transistor density of 40.0M per mm². The GB10's transistor count is not recorded, but its die size is 382 mm². The Radeon VII's FP16 throughput of 26.88 TFLOPS is achieved at a 2:1 ratio relative to FP32, whereas the GB10 delivers FP16 at a 1:1 ratio matching its FP32 figure of 29.71 TFLOPS.

Specification Differences

The two cards differ across nearly every major specification category. The GB10 has a base clock of 1665 MHz and a boost clock of 2418 MHz, while the Radeon VII has a base clock of 1400 MHz and a boost clock of 1750 MHz. Memory size differs substantially: 128 GB LPDDR5X for the GB10 versus 16 GB HBM2 for the Radeon VII. The memory bus widths are 256-bit and 4096-bit respectively, and bandwidth is 273.2 GB/s versus 1.02 TB/s.

Compute resources differ in count and type. The GB10 has 6,144 shading units, 384 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 48 RT cores, and 384 tensor cores. The Radeon VII has 3,840 shading units, 240 TMUs, and 64 ROPs, with no RT or tensor cores. FP32 throughput is 29.71 TFLOPS for the GB10 versus 13.44 TFLOPS for the Radeon VII. FP16 throughput is 29.71 TFLOPS (1:1) versus 26.88 TFLOPS (2:1).

Pixel and texture rates also differ: the GB10 posts 116.1 GPixel/s and 928.5 GTexel/s, while the Radeon VII posts 112.0 GPixel/s and 420.0 GTexel/s. The GB10 has a TDP of 140 W with no power connectors and a 300 W suggested PSU, while the Radeon VII has a TDP of 295 W with two 8-pin connectors and a 600 W suggested PSU. The GB10 is an IGP with PCIe 5.0 x16, while the Radeon VII is dual-slot with PCIe 3.0 x16. Display outputs are 1x HDMI for the GB10 versus 1x HDMI 2.0b and 3x DisplayPort 1.4a for the Radeon VII. API support is listed as N/A for the GB10, while the Radeon VII supports DirectX 12 (12_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.3. The GB10 was released on 2025-10-14 and remains Active, while the Radeon VII was released on 2019-02-06 and is End-of-life.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The shared benchmark data covers two tests: Geekbench OpenCL and Geekbench Vulkan. In OpenCL, the NVIDIA GB10 scores 120,137 against the AMD Radeon VII's 91,947, a 30.7% margin. In Vulkan, the GB10 scores 114,648 against 91,788, a 24.9% margin. The GB10 wins both recorded head-to-head tests, giving it 2 wins and the Radeon VII 0 wins.

These results align with the compute throughput figures. The GB10's 29.71 TFLOPS FP32 is roughly 2.2 times the Radeon VII's 13.44 TFLOPS, which explains the large OpenCL gap. The Vulkan gap is slightly narrower at 24.9%, possibly reflecting the Radeon VII's mature Vulkan 1.3 driver support versus the GB10's N/A API listing in the database.

The Radeon VII's nearest rivals in the database are the NVIDIA Tesla T4 (avg score 66,733, delta -1.1%), the NVIDIA Tesla P40 (avg score 65,095, delta 1.4%), the AMD Radeon Pro WX 9100 (avg score 64,212, delta 2.8%), and the NVIDIA CMP 30HX (avg score 63,842, delta 3.4%). The GB10's nearest rivals are the NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation (avg score 117,088, delta 0.3%), the AMD Radeon PRO W7700 (avg score 118,976, delta -1.3%), the NVIDIA Tesla V100 SXM2 16 GB (avg score 114,395, delta 2.6%), and the NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile (avg score 113,944, delta 3.0%). The GB10's average score of 117,393 sits within 1.3% of the Radeon PRO W7700 and just 0.3% above the RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation, indicating it competes in a much higher performance tier than the Radeon VII, whose average score of 66,004 is closest to the Tesla T4.

Memory bandwidth tells a different story. The Radeon VII's 1.02 TB/s from HBM2 over a 4096-bit bus is a 3.7x advantage over the GB10's 273.2 GB/s from LPDDR5X over a 256-bit bus. This does not show up in the recorded OpenCL or Vulkan scores, but it suggests the Radeon VII could perform relatively better in memory-bound workloads that are not represented in the head-to-head data.

The Verdict

The data points to the NVIDIA GB10 as the faster card in the two recorded benchmarks. It leads by 30.7% in OpenCL and 24.9% in Vulkan, and its FP32 throughput of 29.71 TFLOPS is more than double the Radeon VII's 13.44 TFLOPS. The GB10 also delivers FP16 at a 1:1 ratio, meaning its FP16 performance matches its FP32 figure, whereas the Radeon VII achieves its 26.88 TFLOPS FP16 only through a 2:1 ratio. The GB10's 384 tensor cores add AI-specific capability that the Radeon VII cannot match. Its 140 W TDP and lack of power connectors also make it far easier to integrate into a system than the Radeon VII's 295 W dual-slot design with two 8-pin connectors.

The AMD Radeon VII retains advantages in memory bandwidth (1.02 TB/s versus 273.2 GB/s), ROP count (64 versus 48), and API support (DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3 versus N/A for all on the GB10). It also has a higher pixel rate in raw terms, though the GB10's 116.1 GPixel/s actually exceeds the Radeon VII's 112.0 GPixel/s despite the ROP deficit. For workloads that depend on massive memory bandwidth or require DirectX 12 and Vulkan API features, the Radeon VII is the better fit from the recorded data.

The GB10 occupies the 95th percentile of all GPUs with an average score of 117,393, while the Radeon VII sits at the 90th percentile with 66,004. The GB10 rivals the Radeon PRO W7700 and RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation in average score, while the Radeon VII sits alongside the Tesla T4 and Tesla P40. The Radeon VII is End-of-life, whereas the GB10 is Active production. The launch MSRP is 3,999 USD for the GB10 and 699 USD for the Radeon VII. The GB10 is the correct choice for compute-heavy and AI-oriented tasks based on the benchmark data, while the Radeon VII makes sense only where its 1.02 TB/s memory bandwidth or legacy API support is the deciding factor.