AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 vs AMD Radeon Vega 3

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 and AMD Radeon Vega 3 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

AMD Radeon Vega 3

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 1000 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm

Boost clock speed	1100 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 3

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 50% higher pipelines: 192 vs 128
Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 303 vs 244
Around 76% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 889 vs 506
Around 24% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 3963 vs 3208

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 February 2018 vs 7 Jan 2018
Pipelines	192 vs 128
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	303 vs 244
PassMark - G3D Mark	889 vs 506
Geekbench - OpenCL	3963 vs 3208

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega 3

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

244

303

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

506

889

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

3208

3963

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	AMD Radeon Vega 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	244	303
PassMark - G3D Mark	506	889
Geekbench - OpenCL	3208	3963
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		10.049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		183.156
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.75
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		18.933
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		60.006
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3174
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3174
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		418

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	AMD Radeon Vega 3
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	GCN 5.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Owl
Launch date	7 Jan 2018	13 February 2018
Place in performance rating	977	1267
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	128	192
Transistor count	4500 million	4,940 million
Core clock speed		300 MHz
Floating-point performance		384.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		15 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		IGP
Supplementary power connectors		None
Memory
Memory type		System Shared