RTX 5880 Ada Generation vs Radeon RX Vega 2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated4
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.58
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeAD102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years ago)5 January 2024 (less than a year 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 cores12814080
Core clock speedno data975 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz2460 MHz
Number of transistorsno data76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt285 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,082
Floating-point processing powerno data69.27 TFLOPS
ROPsno data176
TMUsno data440
Tensor Coresno data440
Ray Tracing Coresno data110

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data48 GB
Memory bus widthno data384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data864.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 data4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 5 January 2024
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 285 Watt

RX Vega 2 has 1800% lower power consumption.

RTX 5880 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 2 and RTX 5880 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 2 is a notebook card while RTX 5880 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
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