Radeon RX Vega Mobile vs GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking92not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency25.49no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGA104Vega Mobile
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)7 January 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 cores61441792
Core clock speed1110 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1545 MHzno data
Number of transistors17,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt90 Watt
Texture fill rate296.6no data
Floating-point processing power18.98 TFLOPSno data
ROPs96no data
TMUs192no data
Tensor Cores192no data
Ray Tracing Cores48no data

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).

Laptop sizelargemedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16no data

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 typeGDDR6HBM2
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/sno data
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 outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12_1
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2-
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 7 January 2018
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 90 Watt

RTX 3080 Mobile has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

RX Vega Mobile, on the other hand, has 27.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile and Radeon RX Vega Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
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AMD Radeon RX Vega Mobile
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