GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking476not rated
Place by popularity29not in top-100
Power efficiency41.69no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVegaGA102
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,699

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 cores51210752
Boost clock speed2100 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistorsno data28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt400 Watt
Texture fill rateno data569.5
Floating-point processing powerno data36.45 TFLOPS
ROPsno data112
TMUsno data336

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 dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data336 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 12-pin

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 dataGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amountno data24 GB
Memory bus widthno data384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data21.2 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data1,018 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, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 400 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 2566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER
GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER

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