ATI Radeon HD 3570 vs RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking656not rated
Place by popularity30not in top-100
Power efficiency20.91no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeRV620
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date26 October 2017 (7 years ago)5 July 2010 (14 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 cores51240
Core clock speedno data796 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data181 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rateno data3.184
Floating-point processing powerno data0.06368 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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 dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
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 dataDDR2
Maximum RAM amountno data512 MB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data495 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data7.92 GB/s
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 data2x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_110.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 October 2017 5 July 2010
Chip lithography 14 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 30 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has an age advantage of 7 years, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon HD 3570. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook card while Radeon HD 3570 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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