Radeon Graphics 512SP vs 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 efficiency14.13no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeRenoir
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years ago)7 March 2020 (4 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 cores384512
Core clock speedno data400 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz2100 MHz
Number of transistorsno data9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data67.20
Floating-point processing powerno data2.15 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data32

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 dataIGP
Widthno dataIGP
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 dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory-+

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 dataMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7 (6.4)
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 7 March 2020
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm

Graphics 512SP has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon Graphics 512SP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook card while Radeon Graphics 512SP is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
AMD Radeon Graphics 512SP
Radeon Graphics 512SP

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