Radeon Vega 8 Embedded vs R7 370

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking409not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation6.65no data
Power efficiency7.29no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameTrinidadRaven
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date18 June 2015 (9 years ago)19 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$149 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1024512
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed975 MHz1101 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate62.4035.23
Floating-point processing power1.997 TFLOPS1.127 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs6432

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length152 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pinNone

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 amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed975 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth179.2 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI+-
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

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

AppAcceleration+-
CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
TrueAudio+-
VCE+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan+1.2.131
Mantle+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 June 2015 19 April 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 35 Watt

Vega 8 Embedded has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 214.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 370 and Radeon Vega 8 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.


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