AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 and AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
  • Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 355 vs 244
  • 3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1894 vs 506
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 April 2018 vs 7 Jan 2018
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 355 vs 244
PassMark - G3D Mark 1894 vs 506

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
244
355
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
506
1894
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient
PassMark - G2D Mark 244 355
PassMark - G3D Mark 506 1894
Geekbench - OpenCL 3208
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 26.039
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 176.928
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.666
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 27.603
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 135.437
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2408
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3170
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2408
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3170
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3352
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 862

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient

Essentials

Architecture Vega GCN 5.0
Code name Vega Raven Ridge Raven
Launch date 7 Jan 2018 23 April 2018
Place in performance rating 957 958
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1100 MHz 1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 128
Transistor count 4500 million 4,940 million
Core clock speed 300 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP
Supplementary power connectors None