AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000): specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000) sales 7 January 2021. This is Vega architecture notebook card primarily aimed at gamers.
Power consumption is at 15 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
General info
Of Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000)'s architecture, market segment and release date.
| Place in performance rating | 161 | |
| Architecture | Vega (2017−2021) | |
| GPU code name | Vega Raven Ridge | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 7 January 2021 (1 year ago) |
Technical specs
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000)'s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000)'s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 512 | of 18432 (AD102) |
| Boost clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000): its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Shared memory | - |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000), sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12_1 |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000). Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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.
- 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
- 3DMark Fire Strike Score
- 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
- 3DMark 11 Performance GPU
- 3DMark Vantage Performance
- 3DMark Ice Storm GPU
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 medical-01
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04
- SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 3dsmax-05
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.
3DMark Fire Strike Score
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 seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
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.
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.
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.
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 medical-01
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 3dsmax-05
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 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.
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 25 | |
| 1440p | 15 | |
| 4K | 10 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 30−35 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 30−35 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 30−35 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 30−35 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 30−35 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 24 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 25 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 30−35 | |
| Hitman 3 | 30−35 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 30−35 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 30−35 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 22 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 30−35 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 30−35 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 30−35 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 30−35 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 30−35 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 30−35 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 22 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 24 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 30−35 | |
| Hitman 3 | 30−35 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 30−35 | |
| Metro Exodus | 16 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 30−35 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 20 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 21 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 30−35 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 30−35 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 30−35 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 30−35 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 30−35 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 21 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 22 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 30−35 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 14 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 30−35 |
1440p
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 30−35 | |
| Hitman 3 | 30−35 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 30−35 | |
| Metro Exodus | 10 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 30−35 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 30−35 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 30−35 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 30−35 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 30−35 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 30−35 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 16 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 17 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 30−35 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 30−35 |
4K
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 30−35 | |
| Hitman 3 | 30−35 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 30−35 | |
| Metro Exodus | 6 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 30−35 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 6 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 30−35 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 30−35 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 30−35 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 30−35 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 30−35 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 8 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 30−35 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 30−35 |
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000) performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
NVIDIA equivalent
The nearest Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000)'s NVIDIA equivalent is GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our rating.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000):
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 5000) according to our statistics.
