Radeon E9172 MXM vs RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking583not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency27.87no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameVega RenoirLexa
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)3 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 cores384512
Core clock speed400 MHz1124 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1219 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data39.01
Floating-point processing powerno data1.248 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
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 dataMXM-A (3.0)
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 dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data48 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 3 October 2017
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 35 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon E9172 MXM. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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