Radeon Vega 8 Efficient vs ATI VE

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 6 (2000−2007)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameRage 6Raven
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date19 February 2001 (23 years ago)23 April 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data512
Core clock speed183 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors30 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate0.5535.20
Floating-point processing powerno data1.126 TFLOPS
ROPs18
TMUs332

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).

InterfaceAGP 4xIGP
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount32 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed183 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth2.928 GB/sno data

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 DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX7.012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 February 2001 23 April 2018
Chip lithography 180 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 35 Watt

ATI VE has 52.2% lower power consumption.

Vega 8 Efficient, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 17 years, and a 1185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon VE and Radeon Vega 8 Efficient. We've got no test results to judge.


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