Radeon RX Vega 2 vs RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	618	not rated
Place by popularity	48	not in top-100
Architecture	Vega (2017−2021)	Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	26 October 2017 (6 years ago)	7 January 2018 (6 years ago)
Current price	no data	$351

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	128
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	15 Watt

Memory

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.

Shared memory

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API support

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

DirectX

12_1

12_1

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	26 October 2017	7 January 2018
Chip lithography	14 nm	12 nm

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