Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) vs Maxwell GPU Surface Book

Place in the ranking	706	653
Place by popularity	not in top-100	45
Power efficiency	no data	21.43
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code name	Surface Book	Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 October 2015 (9 years ago)	26 October 2017 (7 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 cores	384	512
Core clock speed	954 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	993 MHz	1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	15 Watt

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 type	GDDR5	no data
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	no data
Memory bus width	64 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	no data
Shared memory	-	-

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.

DirectX	12 (FL 11_0)	12_1
CUDA	+	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Maxwell GPU Surface Book 3.69

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) 4.50
+22%

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Maxwell GPU Surface Book 2577

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) 3557
+38%

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Maxwell GPU Surface Book 2076

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) 2381
+14.7%

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Maxwell GPU Surface Book 11380

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) 15770
+38.6%

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Maxwell GPU Surface Book 123411
+9%

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) 113247

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	23 +35.3%	17 −35.3%
4K	8−9 −25%	10 +25%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

7−8

−28.6%

9
+28.6%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−12 −36.4%	15 +36.4%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3 −400%	10 +400%
Battlefield 5	8−9 −125%	18 +125%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	8−9 −25%	10 +25%
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8 −28.6%	9 +28.6%
Far Cry 5	7−8 −157%	18 +157%
Far Cry New Dawn	10−11 −80%	18 +80%
Forza Horizon 4	21−24 −176%	58 +176%
Hitman 3	9−10 +0%	9 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	24−27 −15.4%	30−33 +15.4%
Metro Exodus	6−7 −267%	22 +267%
Red Dead Redemption 2	9−10 −77.8%	16 +77.8%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	14−16 −35.7%	19 +35.7%
Watch Dogs: Legion	40−45 −54.8%	65 +54.8%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−12 −173%	30 +173%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3 −100%	4−5 +100%
Battlefield 5	8−9 −37.5%	10−12 +37.5%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	8−9 −25%	10 +25%
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8 +16.7%	6 −16.7%
Far Cry 5	7−8 −42.9%	10 +42.9%
Far Cry New Dawn	10−11 −30%	13 +30%
Forza Horizon 4	21−24 −148%	52 +148%
Hitman 3	9−10 −11.1%	10−11 +11.1%
Horizon Zero Dawn	24−27 −15.4%	30−33 +15.4%
Metro Exodus	6−7 −183%	17 +183%
Red Dead Redemption 2	9−10 −11.1%	10 +11.1%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	14−16 −14.3%	16 +14.3%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 −107%	31 +107%
Watch Dogs: Legion	40−45 −31%	55 +31%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−12 +37.5%	8 −37.5%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3 −100%	4−5 +100%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	8−9 +14.3%	7 −14.3%
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8 +40%	5 −40%
Far Cry 5	7−8 +0%	7 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	21−24 −9.5%	23 +9.5%
Hitman 3	9−10 −11.1%	10−11 +11.1%
Horizon Zero Dawn	24−27 +73.3%	15 −73.3%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	14−16 +0%	14 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 +87.5%	8 −87.5%
Watch Dogs: Legion	40−45 −7.1%	45−50 +7.1%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

9−10

−11.1%

10
+11.1%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	6−7 −33.3%	8−9 +33.3%
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7 −16.7%	7−8 +16.7%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 −33.3%	4−5 +33.3%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −33.3%	4−5 +33.3%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −25%	5−6 +25%
Forza Horizon 4	2−3 −300%	8−9 +300%
Hitman 3	8−9 −12.5%	9−10 +12.5%
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10 −11.1%	10−11 +11.1%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4 −33.3%	4−5 +33.3%
Watch Dogs: Legion	21−24 −21.7%	27−30 +21.7%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

7−8

−14.3%

8−9
+14.3%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −100%	4 +100%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2 −100%	2−3 +100%
Cyberpunk 2077	0−1	0−1
Far Cry 5	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	2−3 −350%	9 +350%
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5

−25%

5−6
+25%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Metro Exodus

1−2

+0%

1−2

+0%

4K
High Preset

Hitman 3	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4 +0%	3−4 +0%
Metro Exodus	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	0−1	0−1

This is how Maxwell GPU Surface Book and RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) compete in popular games:

Maxwell GPU Surface Book is 35% faster in 1080p
RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is 25% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with 1080p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the Maxwell GPU Surface Book is 88% faster.
in Assassin's Creed Valhalla, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is 400% faster.

All in all, in popular games: