NVS 1000 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 ranking479not rated
Place by popularity29not in top-100
Power efficiency41.66no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameVegaGK107
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores512192
Core clock speedno data797 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data12.75
Floating-point processing powerno data0.306 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data16

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 3.0 x16
Lengthno data160 mm
Widthno data1-slot

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 dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data891 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data28.51 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 data4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data6.5 (5.1)
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2.175
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 35 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and NVS 1000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while NVS 1000 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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