AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870: specs and benchmarks

VS

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 sales 7 January 2018. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Vega architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.

Power consumption is at 65 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 14.17% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

RTX 4090GeForce RTX4090
Compare

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking336
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureVega (2017−2021)
GPU code nameVega Kaby Lake-G
Market segmentLaptop
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years old)

Technical specs

Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1280of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed931 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed1011 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870's 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 sizemedium sized

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870: 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.

Memory typeHBM2
Maximum RAM amount4 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-

API support

APIs supported by Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12_1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870. 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.

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 M GL / 870 9862

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 M GL / 870 7329

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 M GL / 870 38812

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 M GL / 870 299071

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 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 HD44
1440p23
4K14

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 21−24

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 47
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
Battlefield 5 62
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 44
Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
Far Cry 5 42
Far Cry New Dawn 44
Forza Horizon 4 45−50
Hitman 3 35−40
Horizon Zero Dawn 27−30
Red Dead Redemption 2 35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 41
Watch Dogs: Legion 24−27

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 39
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
Battlefield 5 52
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 36
Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
Far Cry 5 39
Far Cry New Dawn 41
Forza Horizon 4 45−50
Hitman 3 35−40
Horizon Zero Dawn 27−30
Metro Exodus 24
Red Dead Redemption 2 16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 33
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 41
Watch Dogs: Legion 24−27

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 23
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
Battlefield 5 48
Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
Far Cry 5 36
Far Cry New Dawn 38
Forza Horizon 4 45−50
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 24
Watch Dogs: Legion 24−27

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 21
Hitman 3 21−24
Horizon Zero Dawn 20−22
Metro Exodus 14
Red Dead Redemption 2 10−11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 19

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 17
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 10−12
Battlefield 5 34
Cyberpunk 2077 7−8
Far Cry 5 24
Far Cry New Dawn 27
Forza Horizon 4 24−27
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 16−18
Watch Dogs: Legion 8−9

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 12
Hitman 3 12−14
Horizon Zero Dawn 10−12
Metro Exodus 7−8
Red Dead Redemption 2 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 9
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 11
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 6−7
Battlefield 5 16
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Far Cry 5 12
Far Cry New Dawn 13
Forza Horizon 4 18−20
Watch Dogs: Legion 5−6

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 is GeForce GTX 770M SLI, which is faster by 1% and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.

GTX 770M SLIGeForce GTX770M SLI
Compare

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870:

Similar GPUs

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

Apple M1 8-Core GPUM1 8Core GPU
Compare
GTX 1050 Ti Max-QGeForce GTX1050 Ti Max-Q
Compare
GTX 1050 Ti MobileGeForce GTX1050 Ti Mobile
Compare
R9 M395Radeon R9M395
Compare

Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 according to our statistics.

User ratings: view and submit

Here you can see the user rating of the graphics card, as well as rate it yourself.


1.5 117 votes

Rate AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Questions and comments

Here you can ask a question about Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870, agree or disagree with our judgements, or report an error or mismatch.