AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 vs AMD Radeon R7 A265

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 and AMD Radeon R7 A265 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.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

AMD Radeon R7 A265

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 33% higher boost clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 825 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1015 vs 994

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2018 vs 9 January 2014
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz vs 825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1015 vs 994

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 A265

Around 46% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 468 vs 320

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	468 vs 320

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 6
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 A265

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

320

468

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1015

994

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	AMD Radeon R7 A265
PassMark - G2D Mark	320	468
PassMark - G3D Mark	1015	994
Geekbench - OpenCL		6925

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	AMD Radeon R7 A265
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5th gen	GCN 1.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Opal
Launch date	7 January 2018	9 January 2014
Place in performance rating	456	458
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	384
Transistor count	4500 million	1,040 million
Core clock speed		725 MHz
Floating-point performance		633.6 gflops
Pipelines		384
Texture fill rate		19.8 GTexel / s
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.0
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3