Radeon Vega 8 Embedded vs GeForce GTX 880M SLI

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking250not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.54no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameN15E-GX-A2Raven
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date12 March 2014 (10 years ago)19 April 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3072512
Core clock speed954 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1101 MHz
Number of transistors2x 3540 Million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)206 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data35.23
Floating-point processing powerno data1.127 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataIGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width2x 256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed5000 MHzSystem Shared
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (FL 11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 March 2014 19 April 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 206 Watt 35 Watt

Vega 8 Embedded has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 488.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 880M SLI and Radeon Vega 8 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 880M SLI is a notebook card while Radeon Vega 8 Embedded is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M SLI
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AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded
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