Arctic Sound-M vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking480not rated
Place by popularity29not in top-100
Power efficiency42.00no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Generation 12.5 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameVegaArctic Sound
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)2022 (2 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 cores5128192
Core clock speedno data900 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rateno data230.4
Floating-point processing powerno data14.75 TFLOPS
ROPsno data128
TMUsno data256

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 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-pin EPS

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 dataHBM2e
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data4096 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.23 TB/s
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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 500 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 3233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Arctic Sound-M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while Arctic Sound-M is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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