AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, 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

42789 points

7115% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

1019 FPS

1007 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

503 FPS

493 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

740 FPS

728 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

425 FPS

420 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1426 points

14480 points

915% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

14992.38 points

16813% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

383325 points

4023% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

380401 points

3237% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

2017 MHz

572% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

2407 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

1177% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

2547% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

21760

4149% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

680

2025% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

2099% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586

1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce RTX 5090 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is better than the Radeon Vega 8 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5090 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 also 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 5090 at 575 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 is better than the Radeon Vega 8.