Radeon RX 5800 XT vs RX Vega 9

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking604not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency25.76no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeNavi 23
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date26 October 2017 (7 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 cores5763328
Boost clock speed1300 MHz1775 MHz
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt275 Watt
Texture fill rateno data369.2
Floating-point processing powerno data11.81 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data208

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
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data14000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 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 Ultimate (12_1)
OpenGLno data4.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 275 Watt

RX Vega 9 has 1733.3% lower power consumption.

RX 5800 XT, on the other hand, has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 9 and Radeon RX 5800 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 9 is a notebook card while Radeon RX 5800 XT is a desktop one.


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