RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 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 efficiency41.82no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameVegaAD106
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores5124608
Core clock speedno data1395 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistorsno data22,900 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rateno data244.1
Floating-point processing powerno data15.62 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data144
Tensor Coresno data144
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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

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 dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data256.0 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 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 data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 115 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has 666.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook graphics card while RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

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