Radeon RX Vega 2 vs R6 (Kaveri)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	916	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 1.1 (2014)	Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code name	Kaveri	Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	4 June 2014 (10 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	384	128
Core clock speed	533 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	654 MHz	1100 MHz
Number of transistors	2410 Million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	15 Watt

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

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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 bus width	64/128 Bit	no data
Shared memory	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX

12 (FL 12_0)

12_1

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	4 June 2014	7 January 2018
Chip lithography	28 nm	12 nm

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