vista vs visual percept

vista and visual percept both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vista	Yes	No	No	No
visual percept	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, visual percept is a hypernym of vista; that is, visual percept is a word with a broader meaning than vista:

vista: the visual percept of a region
visual percept: a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system

Other hypernyms of vista include visual image.

vista (noun)	visual percept (noun)
the visual percept of a region	a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system