RTX A3000 Mobile 12 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 nameVegaGA104
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 cores5124096
Core clock speedno data495 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHz1170 MHz
Number of transistorsno data17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rateno data149.8
Floating-point processing powerno data9.585 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data128
Tensor Coresno data128
Ray Tracing 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 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 data12 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data336.0 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 data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 12 April 2021
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 70 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 366.7% lower power consumption.

RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB. 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 A3000 Mobile 12 GB is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB
RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB

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