N1 20SM vs Radeon RX Vega 2

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Primary details

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

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ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Blackwell 2.0 (2025−2026)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeGB20B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2018 (8 years ago)1 June 2026 (recently)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Real power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially if overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1282560
Core clock speedno data1665 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz2418 MHz
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data386.9
Floating-point processing powerno data12.38 TFLOPS
ROPsno data24
TMUsno data160
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20
L1 Cacheno data2.5 MB
L2 Cacheno data50 MB

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 5.0 x16
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 typeno dataLPDDR5X
Maximum RAM amountno data128 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1067 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data273.2 GB/s
Shared memory-no data
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI
HDMI-+

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12_1N/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGLno dataN/A
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-12.1
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 1 June 2026
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm

N1 20SM has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 2 and N1 20SM. We've got no test results to judge.

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