Jetson Orin NX 16 GB vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking481not rated
Place by popularity34not in top-100
Power efficiency41.36no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVegaGA10B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)February 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

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 cores5121024
Core clock speedno data918 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rateno data29.38
Floating-point processing powerno data1.88 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data32
Tensor Coresno 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 dataPCIe 4.0 x4

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 dataLPDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data102.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 dataPortable Device Dependent

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 data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 25 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Jetson Orin NX 16 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16 GB
Jetson Orin NX 16 GB

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