GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon Vega 8 Efficient

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1
Place by popularitynot in top-1006
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data18.82
Power efficiencyno data15.22
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameRavenAD102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date23 April 2018 (6 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores51216384
Core clock speed300 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors4,940 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt450 Watt
Texture fill rate35.201,290
Floating-point processing power1.126 TFLOPS82.58 TFLOPS
ROPs8176
TMUs32512
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data128

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data304 mm
WidthIGP3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-pin

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared24 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared384 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1313 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.01 TB/s
Shared memoryno 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2018 20 September 2022
Chip lithography 14 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 450 Watt

Vega 8 Efficient has 1185.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega 8 Efficient and GeForce RTX 4090. We've got no test results to judge.


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