Radeon Vega 8 Embedded vs ATI HD 3850

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1104not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04no data
Power efficiency0.93no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameRV670Raven
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date19 November 2007 (17 years ago)19 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$179 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores320512
Core clock speed668 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1101 MHz
Number of transistors666 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate10.6935.23
Floating-point processing power0.4275 TFLOPS1.127 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs1632

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length208 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed830 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth53.12 GB/sno 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 November 2007 19 April 2018
Chip lithography 55 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 35 Watt

Vega 8 Embedded has an age advantage of 10 years, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 114.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3850 and Radeon Vega 8 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.


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