Radeon RX 580G vs 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)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameVegaPolaris 20
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)15 October 2018 (6 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 cores5122304
Core clock speedno data1257 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHz1330 MHz
Number of transistorsno data5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt185 Watt
Texture fill rateno data191.5
Floating-point processing powerno data6.129 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data144

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 data241 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-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 dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 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 data1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 15 October 2018
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 185 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 1133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon RX 580G. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while Radeon RX 580G is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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