AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs AMD Radeon R3 Graphics

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and AMD Radeon R3 Graphics 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

AMD Radeon R3 Graphics

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2x more boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 600 MHz
4x more pipelines: 512 vs 128
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 28 January 2015
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines	512 vs 128
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R3 Graphics

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	AMD Radeon R3 Graphics
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429
PassMark - G3D Mark		310
PassMark - G2D Mark		94
Geekbench - OpenCL		1568
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		3.343
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		106.771
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.35
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		8.234
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		21.88
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		587
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		750
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1745
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		587
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		750
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1745

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	AMD Radeon R3 Graphics
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	GCN 2.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Beema
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	28 January 2015
Place in performance rating	949	1609
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512	128
Core clock speed		267 MHz
Floating-point performance		153.6 gflops
Texture fill rate		4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		15 Watt
Transistor count		930 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		IGP
Memory
Memory type		System Shared