Radeon Vega 8 Efficient vs R9 380

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking340not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation9.21no data
Power efficiency5.82no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameAntiguaRaven
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date18 June 2015 (9 years ago)23 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 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 cores1792512
Compute units28no data
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed970 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)190 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate108.635.20
Floating-point processing power3.476 TFLOPS1.126 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs11232

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
Length221 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Form factorfull height / full length / dual slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2 x 6-pinNone
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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
High bandwidth memory (HBM)-no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed970 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth182.4 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.

CrossFire+-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TrueAudio+-
ZeroCore+-
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 Model6.36.4
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan+1.2.131
Mantle+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 June 2015 23 April 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 190 Watt 35 Watt

Vega 8 Efficient has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 442.9% lower power consumption.

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