AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000): specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) sales 7 January 2020. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Vega architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.

Power consumption is at 15 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 9.07% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000): architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking443
Place by popularity39
ArchitectureVega (2017−2021)
GPU code nameVega
Market segmentLaptop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years old)

Technical specs

Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)'s specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)'s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores512of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed2100 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology7 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000): its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Shared memory-

API support

APIs supported by Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000), sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12_1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000). The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) 9.07

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) 22428

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) 5908

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) 3751

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) 27160

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) 299071

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Benchmark coverage: 3%

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Benchmark coverage: 3%

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Benchmark coverage: 3%

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SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04

Benchmark coverage: 3%

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Benchmark coverage: 3%

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Benchmark coverage: 3%

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Benchmark coverage: 3%

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Benchmark coverage: 3%

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Benchmark coverage: 2%

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) 47

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD22
1440p16
4K10

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 19

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 18−20
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 20
Battlefield 5 39
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 24−27
Cyberpunk 2077 14
Far Cry 5 22
Far Cry New Dawn 27
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
Hitman 3 25
Horizon Zero Dawn 20
Red Dead Redemption 2 22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 23
Watch Dogs: Legion 21

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 18−20
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 16
Battlefield 5 33
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 24−27
Cyberpunk 2077 10
Far Cry 5 20
Far Cry New Dawn 25
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
Hitman 3 21
Horizon Zero Dawn 16
Metro Exodus 16
Red Dead Redemption 2 12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 20
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 21
Watch Dogs: Legion 17

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 18−20
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 14
Battlefield 5 30
Cyberpunk 2077 9
Far Cry 5 19
Far Cry New Dawn 24
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14
Watch Dogs: Legion 12

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 12−14
Hitman 3 15
Horizon Zero Dawn 12
Metro Exodus 10
Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 12

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 8−9
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 11
Battlefield 5 21
Cyberpunk 2077 5
Far Cry 5 16
Far Cry New Dawn 17
Forza Horizon 4 16−18
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 8−9
Watch Dogs: Legion 8

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 6−7
Hitman 3 8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Metro Exodus 6
Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 6
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 7−8

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 5−6
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 4−5
Battlefield 5 7−8
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Far Cry 5 8
Far Cry New Dawn 8
Forza Horizon 4 10−12
Watch Dogs: Legion 3−4

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is GeForce GTX 485M SLI, which is faster by 2% and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.

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Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000):

Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) according to our statistics.

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