AMD Radeon RX Vega 8: specs and benchmarks

Summary
AMD started Radeon RX Vega 8 sales 26 October 2017. This is Vega architecture notebook card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 5.68 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN RTX.
General info
Of Radeon RX Vega 8's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
Vega
Code name
Vega Raven Ridge
Type
Laptop
Release date
26 October 2017
Technical specs
Radeon RX Vega 8's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX Vega 8's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX Vega 8: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Shared memory
-
API support
APIs supported by Radeon RX Vega 8, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
DirectX 12_1
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon RX Vega 8. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
5.68
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
113147
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
14338
3DMark Fire Strike Score
1854
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
2073
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3482
3DMark Vantage Performance
10294
Unigine Heaven 3.0
27
Passmark
1737
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon RX Vega 8 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon RX Vega 8 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon RX Vega 8 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 850M, which is slower by 5% and lower by 2 positions in our rating.