AMD Radeon R9 380 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, 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

1280 points

115% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2801 points

96% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29877 points

240% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33763 points

276% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28196 points

203% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33667 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

970 MHz

223% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

970 MHz

2000 MHz

106% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

190 W

45 W

322% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

31.04 Gigapixels/s

94% significantly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.6 Gigatexels/s

69% significantly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.48 TFLOPS

69% significantly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

250% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

250% 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

244th of 586

310th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2021 January

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

4.6

Radeon R9 380 vs Radeon Vega 8 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 380 GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

The Radeon R9 380 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon R9 380 at 190 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 380 is faster than the Radeon Vega 8.