RTX 5000 Embedded Ada Generation vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking479not rated
Place by popularity29not in top-100
Power efficiency41.89no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameVegaAD103
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores5129728
Core clock speedno data1425 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHz2115 MHz
Number of transistorsno data45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rateno data643.0
Floating-point processing powerno data41.15 TFLOPS
ROPsno data112
TMUsno data304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76

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
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 dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data576.0 GB/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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 120 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has 700% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000 Embedded Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and RTX 5000 Embedded Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook graphics card while RTX 5000 Embedded Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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NVIDIA RTX 5000 Embedded Ada Generation
RTX 5000 Embedded Ada Generation

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