Jetson Nano GPU vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking657not rated
Place by popularity41not in top-100
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeGM20B
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date26 October 2017 (6 years ago)March 2019 (5 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 cores512128
Core clock speedno data640 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz921 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rateno data14.74
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2358 gflops
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data16

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
Lengthno data70 mm
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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.1
CUDA-5.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 20 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 10 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Jetson Nano GPU, on the other hand, has 50% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Jetson Nano GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook card while Jetson Nano GPU is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
NVIDIA Jetson Nano GPU
Jetson Nano GPU

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