RX Vega M GL / 870 vs RX Vega M GL

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Combined performance score

RX Vega M GL
9.33

RX Vega M GL / 870 outperforms RX Vega M GL by 53% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking435336
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money2.60no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code namePolaris 22Vega Kaby Lake-G
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 February 2018 (6 years old)7 January 2018 (6 years old)
Current price$1307 no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

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 cores12801280
Core clock speed931 MHz931 MHz
Boost clock speed1011 MHz1011 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate80.88no data
Floating-point performance2,588 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon RX Vega M GL and Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 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 datamedium sized
InterfaceIGPno data

Memory

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 typeHBM2HBM2
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width1024 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1400 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth179.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 outputsno data

API support

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12_1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131no data

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD27−30
−63%
44
+63%
1440p14−16
−64.3%
23
+64.3%
4K9−10
−55.6%
14
+55.6%

Performance in popular games

Full HD
High Preset

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 18−20
−116%
41
+116%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 18−20
−26.3%
24
+26.3%

4K
High Preset

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 7−8
−100%
14
+100%

This is how RX Vega M GL and RX Vega M GL / 870 compete in popular games:

1080p resolution:

  • RX Vega M GL / 870 is 63% faster than RX Vega M GL

1440p resolution:

  • RX Vega M GL / 870 is 64.3% faster than RX Vega M GL

4K resolution:

  • RX Vega M GL / 870 is 55.6% faster than RX Vega M GL

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with 1080p resolution and the High Preset, the RX Vega M GL / 870 is 116% faster than the RX Vega M GL.

All in all, in popular games:

  • Without exception, RX Vega M GL / 870 surpassed RX Vega M GL in all 3 of our tests.

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 9.33 14.30

The Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon RX Vega M GL in performance tests.


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