Radeon Vega 8 Embedded vs Pro 555

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking513not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.45no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code namePolaris 21Raven
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date5 June 2017 (7 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 cores768512
Core clock speed850 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1101 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate40.8035.23
Floating-point processing power1.306 TFLOPS1.127 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs4832

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8IGP
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 amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1275 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth81.6 GB/sno data
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

Supported technologies

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

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 June 2017 19 April 2018
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 35 Watt

Vega 8 Embedded has an age advantage of 10 months, and 114.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro 555 and Radeon Vega 8 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro 555 is a mobile workstation card while Radeon Vega 8 Embedded is a desktop one.


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