Radeon Vega 8 Efficient vs HD 8450G

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1128not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.74no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameScrapperRaven
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date23 May 2013 (11 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 cores192512
Core clock speed533 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed720 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors1,303 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate8.64035.20
Floating-point processing power0.2765 TFLOPS1.126 TFLOPS
ROPs48
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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceIGPIGP
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 typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 May 2013 23 April 2018
Chip lithography 32 nm 14 nm

Vega 8 Efficient has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 128.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8450G and Radeon Vega 8 Efficient. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8450G is a notebook card while Radeon Vega 8 Efficient is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8450G
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