AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon Vega 8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

593 points

11108 points

1773% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

285 FPS

272 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

140 FPS

130 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

193 FPS

181 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

110 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

5482.15 points

6084% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

159842 points

1619% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

145828 points

1179% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1290 MHz

330% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

1665 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

144% significantly lower TDP

110 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

133.2 Gigapixels/s

732% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

386.3 Gigatexels/s

503% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.05 TFLOPS

24.72 TFLOPS

1107% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

7424

1350% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

232

625% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

900% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 586

34th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop beats the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop at 110 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop over the Radeon Vega 8.