CDNA3 vs Radeon RX Vega XL

Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)CDNA 3.0
GPU code nameVega 10CDNA3
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date8 August 2017 (6 years ago)no data

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 cores35842x 7040
Core clock speed1500 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1630 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data146,000 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Wattno data
Texture fill rate365.1no data
Floating-point performance11,684 gflopsno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

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 typeHBM2HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2x 64 GB MB
Memory bus width2048 Bit2x 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1890 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth483.8 GB/s2x 1638 GB/s

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0N/A
Shader Model5.0N/A
OpenGL4.5N/A
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkanno dataN/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 5 nm

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