AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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 Vega 8 Efficient

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
27.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1894 vs 69
Around 99% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 355 vs 178

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 April 2018 vs 22 July 2003
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1894 vs 69
PassMark - G2D Mark	355 vs 178

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1894

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

355

178

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
PassMark - G3D Mark	1894	69
PassMark - G2D Mark	355	178
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 Vega 8 Efficient	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Rankine
Code name	Raven	NV35
Launch date	23 April 2018	22 July 2003
Place in performance rating	973	971
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$203
Price now		$166.60
Value for money (0-100)		0.53
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	135 million
Texture fill rate		3.2 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		27.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		850 MHz
Memory type		DDR