N1X 40SM vs Radeon RX Vega 3

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	860	not rated
Place by popularity	83	not in top-100
Power efficiency	14.23	no data
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	Blackwell 2.0 (2025−2026)
GPU code name	Picasso	GB20B
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	20 November 2019 (6 years ago)	1 June 2026 (less than a 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. Real power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially if overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	192	5120
Core clock speed	300 MHz	741 MHz
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	2346 MHz
Number of transistors	4,940 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	13.20	750.7
Floating-point processing power	0.4224 TFLOPS	24.02 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	40
TMUs	12	320
Tensor Cores	no data	160
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	40
L1 Cache	no data	5 MB
L2 Cache	no data	50 MB

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).

Interface	IGP	PCIe 5.0 x16
Width	IGP	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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 type	System Shared	LPDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	128 GB
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1067 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	273.2 GB/s
Shared memory	+	no data
Resizable BAR	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	Motherboard Dependent	1x HDMI
HDMI	-	+

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	N/A
Shader Model	6.7	N/A
OpenGL	4.6	N/A
OpenCL	2.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.3	N/A
CUDA	-	12.1
DLSS	-	+

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	20 November 2019	1 June 2026
Chip lithography	12 nm	5 nm