Quadro NVS 300M vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking660not rated
Place by popularity38not in top-100
Power efficiency20.61no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeG73
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date26 October 2017 (7 years ago)24 May 2006 (18 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 cores51213
Core clock speed300 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors9,800 million177 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt16 Watt
Texture fill rate57.602.000
Floating-point processing power1.843 TFLOPSno data
ROPs82
TMUs324

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceIGPPCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared256 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared700 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data22.4 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model6.43.0
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL2.1N/A
Vulkan1.2N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 October 2017 24 May 2006
Chip lithography 14 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 16 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has an age advantage of 11 years, a 542.9% more advanced lithography process, and 6.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Quadro NVS 300M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook graphics card while Quadro NVS 300M is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M
Quadro NVS 300M

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