Radeon RX Vega 2 vs HD 8450G

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1125	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.75	no data
Architecture	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)	Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code name	Scrapper	Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	23 May 2013 (11 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 cores	192	128
Core clock speed	533 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	720 MHz	1100 MHz
Number of transistors	1,303 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	8.640	no data
Floating-point processing power	0.2765 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	no data
TMUs	12	no 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 size	medium sized	no data
Interface	IGP	no 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 type	System Shared	no data
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	no data
Memory bus width	System Shared	no data
Memory clock speed	System Shared	no 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 Connectors

No outputs

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12_1
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	no data
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	23 May 2013	7 January 2018
Chip lithography	32 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

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