AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs AMD Radeon VII

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs AMD Radeon VII 16 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

6138 points

935% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

107 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

100 FPS

90 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

106 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

56 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1426 points

9129 points

540% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

817.47 points

822% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points

86533 points

887% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points

77122 points

761% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

10718 points

77386 points

622% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

92086 points

890% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

91729 points

704% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1400 MHz

366% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

14% slightly higher boost clock speed

1750 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

566% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

115.26 Gigapixels/s

620% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

432.24 Gigatexels/s

575% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.05 TFLOPS

13.8 TFLOPS

573% significantly better floating point performance

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

240

650% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 586

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

HBM2

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs Radeon VII benchmarks

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

In our comparison, the Radeon VII 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 slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon VII at 300 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 VII over the Radeon Vega 8.