Radeon RX 5700M vs RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

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)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeNavi 10
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years ago)1 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 cores3842304
Core clock speedno data1465 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1720 MHz
Number of transistorsno data10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt180 Watt
Texture fill rateno data247.7
Floating-point processing powerno data7.926 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data144

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data384.0 GB/s
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 data1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 1 March 2020
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 180 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has 1100% lower power consumption.

RX 5700M, on the other hand, 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 RX 5700M. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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