AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.7x more pipelines: 512 vs 192
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 55 nm

Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 30 March 2009
Pipelines	512 vs 192
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 55 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429
PassMark - G3D Mark		798
PassMark - G2D Mark		58
Geekbench - OpenCL		13337
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3258
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3258

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GT200B
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	30 March 2009
Place in performance rating	1352	1355
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$799
Price now		$109.99
Value for money (0-100)		9.89
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	512	192
Core clock speed		600 MHz
Floating-point performance		462.3 gflops
Texture fill rate		38.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		108 Watt
Transistor count		1,400 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	10.0
OpenGL		3.3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3