Redwood vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	655	not rated
Place by popularity	41	not in top-100
Architecture	Vega (2017−2020)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Redwood
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	26 October 2017 (6 years ago)	no data

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	400
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	no data	627 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	no 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.

Shared memory

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no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12_1	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	no data	5.0
OpenGL	no data	4.4
OpenCL	no data	1.2
Vulkan	-	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

14 nm

40 nm

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