AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, 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

593 points
8206 points
1283% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
192 FPS
179 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
95 FPS
85 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS
139 FPS
128 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS
75 FPS
70 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1426 points
3149 points
120% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points
3690.41 points
4063% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points
126840 points
1264% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points
120026 points
953% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz
2280 MHz
659% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz
2497 MHz
24% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W
222% significantly lower TDP
145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s
119.9 Gigapixels/s
649% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s
299.6 Gigatexels/s
368% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
3840
650% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
120
274% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
48
499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 586
51st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce RTX 5060 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card is better than the Radeon Vega 8 in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 is better than the Radeon Vega 8.

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