Radeon Vega 8 Embedded vs RX Vega 5

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking647not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency21.56no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameVegaRaven
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 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 cores320512
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed1400 MHz1101 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 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).

Interfaceno dataIGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem 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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 19 April 2018
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 35 Watt

RX Vega 5 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 5 and Radeon Vega 8 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 5 is a notebook card while Radeon Vega 8 Embedded is a desktop one.


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