AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2x more boost clock speed: 2394 MHz vs 1200 MHz
10.5x more pipelines: 5376 vs 512
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 14 nm
3.9x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 5623 vs 1429

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 Nov 2022 vs 26 Oct 2017
Boost clock speed	2394 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Pipelines	5376 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5623 vs 1429

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

5623

1429

Name	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	1217
PassMark - G3D Mark	28850
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5623	1429
Geekbench - OpenCL	169572
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	343.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	12483.531
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	60.185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	320.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2714.187

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Vega
Code name	Navi 31	Vega Raven Ridge
Launch date	3 Nov 2022	26 Oct 2017
Place in performance rating	17	949
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2394 MHz	1200 MHz
Compute units	84
Core clock speed	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	3.218 TFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	103.0 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	51.48 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5376	512
Pixel fill rate	459.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	804.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt
Transistor count	57700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Height	51 mm, 2 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	276 mm, 10.9 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin
Width	135 mm, 5.3 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.1
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	20 GB
Memory bandwidth	800.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	320 bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6