AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, 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
1882 points
217% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
49 FPS
37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
24 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS
33 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS
18 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points
697.32 points
686% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points
40962 points
340% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points
37410 points
228% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz
832 MHz
177% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz
30% slightly higher boost clock speed
1537 MHz

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s
49.18 Gigapixels/s
207% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s
98.37 Gigatexels/s
53% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
2048
300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
64
100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
32
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 586
216th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
GDDR6

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 RTX A500 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A500 Laptop GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the RTX A500 Laptop is better than the Radeon Vega 8.

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