GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q vs Radeon RX Vega 9

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Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking568not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.82no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2021)Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeGN20-E7 GA104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date26 October 2017 (6 years ago)4 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Current price$302 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5766144
Core clock speedno data780 MHz
Boost clock speed1300 MHz1245 MHz
Number of transistorsno data17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data239.0

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon RX Vega 9 and GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datalarge
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 data6000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data320.0 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 data1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMIno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkanno data1.2
CUDAno data8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 October 2017 4 January 2021
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 80 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 9 and GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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