Qualcomm Adreno 680 vs Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	880
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	no data
GPU code name	Vega 10	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	7 August 2017 (7 years ago)	6 December 2018 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$699	no data

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 cores	4096	no data
Core clock speed	1408 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1668 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	12,500 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	345 Watt	7 Watt
Texture fill rate	427.0	no data
Floating-point processing power	13.66 gflops	no data
ROPs	64	no data
TMUs	256	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	no data
Length	282 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	no data

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 type	HBM2	no data
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	no data
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	no data
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12
Shader Model	6.4	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.0	no data
Vulkan	1.1.125	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	7 August 2017	6 December 2018
Chip lithography	14 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	345 Watt	7 Watt

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