Radeon RX 8800 XT vs 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 popularity34not in top-100
Power efficiency41.71no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)RDNA 4.0
GPU code nameVegaNavi 48
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores5124096
Core clock speedno data1295 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHz2430 MHz
Manufacturing process technology7 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt220 Watt
Texture fill rateno data622.1
Floating-point processing powerno data19.91 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data256
Ray Tracing Coresno data64

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 data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 data2438 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data624.1 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 data1x HDMI 2.1a, 3x DisplayPort 2.1
HDMI-+

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 data2.2
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 220 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has 1366.7% lower power consumption.

RX 8800 XT, on the other hand, has a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon RX 8800 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while Radeon RX 8800 XT is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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