AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs Vega 10

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 8 with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 4 months older Vega 10 that utilizes 10 pipelines and 640 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX Vega 10 over RX Vega 8
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 8
  • Performs significantly better (up to 61%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • 22% higher maximum theoretical performance (2.2 vs 1.8 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 10
  • Has 25% more shading units (640 vs 512)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
11
10
-
12
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
9
10
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
27
16
12
-
20
13
9
-
Far Cry 6
20
17
10
-
13
9
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
11
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
22
17
14
-
17
13
9
-
Ghost of Tsushima
12
9
-
-
9
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
-
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
14
13
10
-
9
10
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 16 11
1080p Ultra 12 -
1440p Ultra 9 -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX Vega 8 +61%
1261
Time Spy 1410 770
Fire Strike 4497 2596
Wild Life Extreme 2532 1534
Night Raid 18010 9613
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
10472
11268
Background Blur 21.2 img/sec 25.3 img/sec
Face Detection 10.9 img/sec 12.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.34 Gpixels/sec 0.39 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.51 Gpixels/sec 0.49 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.15 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 34.9 Gpixels/sec 38 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1322.9 FPS 1381 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX Vega 8 +5%
1562
1482
G2D Mark 398 333
DirectX 11 10 FPS 9 FPS
DirectX 12 8 FPS 8 FPS
GPU Compute 861 Ops/s 813 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 10003 & 315 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
n/a
76.12
Sources: Blender [9] – 4 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX Vega 8 +5%
2257
2156
GB6 ML Half Precision
2817
2805
GB6 ML Quantized
1643
1656
Image Classification (SP) 924 938
Image Segmentation (HP) 1148 1144
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2211 2094
Face Detection (HP) 2819 3148
Pose Estimation (Q) 7106 6847
Text Classification (SP) 832 625
Machine Translation (HP) 1021 1118
Object Detection (SP) 1040 1039
Depth Estimation (Q) 3885 3791
Style Transfer (SP) 14495 13640
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 8 and Vega 10

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 13, 2018 October 26, 2017
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 5.0
GPU Codename Raven Raven
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 4800U or above - AMD Ryzen 7 3700U or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U
- AMD Ryzen 7 5825U
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
- AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS
- AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
- AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS
- and 8 more
- AMD Ryzen 7 3750H
- AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
Laptop GPU ranking (127th and 141st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) 1300-1400 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 640
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 40
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 10
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 9-17 GPixel/s 21-22 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 35-67 GTexel/s 52-56 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 8 +22%
1.1-2.2 TFLOPS
1.7-1.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP IGP
TGP 25 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC GlobalFoundries
Fabrication Process 7 nm 14 nm
Die Size 210 mm² 210 mm²
Transistor Count 4.94 billion 4.94 billion
Transistor Density 23.52 MTr/mm² 23.52 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
Memory Clock System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
Effective Memory Speed System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No

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Total votes: 18

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