GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a vs Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking768not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.87no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeC78
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 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 cores38416
Core clock speedno data500 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data210 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rateno data4.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0384 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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 dataPCI
Widthno dataIGP

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 dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 14 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 40 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has an age advantage of 10 years, a 471.4% more advanced lithography process, and 166.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook card while GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

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