NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
VS
AMD Radeon VII
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
VS
AMD Radeon VII

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M and AMD Radeon VII. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

768
Place in performance rating
39
no data
Value for money (0-100)
31.61
G9x
Architecture
Vega
G94
Code name
Vega 20
Laptop
Type
Desktop
2 March 2009 (12 years ago)
Release date
7 February 2019 (2 years ago)
no data
Launch price (MSRP)
$699
$230
Price now
$53 (0.1x MSRP)
0.13
Value for money
35.81
N10E-GS1
GPU code name
Vega 20
Laptop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M and AMD Radeon VII based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

64
Pipelines
3840
600 MHz
Core clock speed
1400 MHz
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Boost Clock
1750 MHz
505 million
Transistor count
13,230 million
55 nm
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
60 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
19 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
420.0
192 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
64
CUDA cores
no data
288
Gigaflops
no data
64
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3840
no data
Boost clock speed
1750 MHz
505 million
Number of transistors
13,230 million
60 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
295 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M and AMD Radeon VII.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Length
305 mm
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Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
large
Laptop size
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2-way
SLI options
no data
PCI-E 2.0
Bus support
no data
MXM 3.0 Type-B
MXM Type
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M and AMD Radeon VII can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
HBM2
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
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Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
51 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
1024 GB/s
-
Shared memory
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M and AMD Radeon VII, the size and number of monitors.

VGADisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMILVDSSingle Link DVI
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
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S/PDIF
Audio input for HDMI
no data
+
HDMI
+

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M and AMD Radeon VII is the additional functionality.

+
CUDA
no data
+
HybridPower
no data
+
PureVideo HD
no data
8.0
Power management
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M and AMD Radeon VII. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
Vulkan
no data
4.0
Shader Model
no data
1.1
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M and AMD Radeon VII graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M or AMD Radeon VII good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
AMD Radeon VII
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
AMD Radeon VII
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
AMD Radeon VII
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
AMD Radeon VII
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
AMD Radeon VII
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

Less power consumption (60 Watt vs 295 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon VII

76% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($53 (0.1x MSRP) vs $230)

More pipelines (3840 vs 64)

Finer manufacturing process technology (7 nm vs 55 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (16 GB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (1024 GB/s vs 51 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M or AMD Radeon VII?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon VII .

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M versus AMD Radeon VII performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
5.0 Out of 1 CpusData Score AMD Radeon VII