Radeon Vega 8 Embedded vs PlayStation 4 GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameLiverpoolRaven
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date24 November 2013 (11 years ago)19 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 cores1152512
Core clock speed800 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1101 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate57.6035.23
Floating-point processing power1.843 TFLOPS1.127 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs7232

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).

InterfaceIGPIGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1375 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth176.0 GB/sno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1*12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.11.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 November 2013 19 April 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 35 Watt

Vega 8 Embedded has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 114.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between PlayStation 4 GPU and Radeon Vega 8 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that PlayStation 4 GPU is a notebook card while Radeon Vega 8 Embedded is a desktop one.


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