AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs AMD Radeon HD 8400

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs AMD Radeon HD 8400, 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
2017% significantly better overall score
28 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points
387% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1796 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points
499% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
1494 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points
562% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
1404 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points
662% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
1494 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W
25 W
79% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s
566% significantly higher pixel rate
2.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s
1233% significantly higher texture rate
4.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
300% significantly more shading units
128

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
300% significantly more texture mapping units
8

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
100% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 586
557th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
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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 Radeon HD 8400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon Vega 8 beats the Radeon HD 8400 in gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8400 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the Radeon Vega 8 at 45 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon Vega 8 over the Radeon HD 8400.

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