Radeon Vega 8 Efficient vs HD Graphics 610

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking916not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency25.37no data
ArchitectureGeneration 9.5 (2016−2020)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameKaby Lake GT1Raven
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date30 August 2016 (8 years ago)23 April 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 cores96512
Core clock speed300 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors189 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm++14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)5 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate10.8035.20
Floating-point processing power0.1728 TFLOPS1.126 TFLOPS
ROPs28
TMUs1232

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).

InterfaceRing BusIGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4System Shared
Maximum RAM amount32 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memory+no data

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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.0
Vulkan1.31.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 August 2016 23 April 2018
Power consumption (TDP) 5 Watt 35 Watt

HD Graphics 610 has 600% lower power consumption.

Vega 8 Efficient, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 610 and Radeon Vega 8 Efficient. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 610 is a notebook card while Radeon Vega 8 Efficient is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics 610
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AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient
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