AMD Radeon R7 450 vs AMD Radeon Vega 3

Compare AMD Radeon R7 450 2 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 3, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

297 points

167% significantly better overall score

111 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

8 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10702 points

143% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4396 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9779 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4915 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10058 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3968 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8478 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

250% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.8 Gigapixels/s

236% significantly higher pixel rate

4.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s

124% significantly higher texture rate

13.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

166% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

380th of 586

494th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.6

Radeon R7 450 vs Radeon Vega 3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R7 450 GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 3 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon R7 450 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 3 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon R7 450 at 65 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R7 450 is better than the Radeon Vega 3.