Xbox Series S GPU vs Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking586not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency27.61no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega RenoirLockhart
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)10 November 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299

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 cores3841280
Core clock speed400 MHz1565 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rateno data125.2
Floating-point processing powerno data4.006 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data80

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
Lengthno data274 mm
Widthno dataIGP

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 data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data224.0 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 data1x HDMI 2.1
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 10 November 2020
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 100 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has 566.7% lower power consumption.

Xbox Series S GPU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months.

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

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while Xbox Series S GPU is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
AMD Xbox Series S GPU
Xbox Series S GPU

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