AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient vs NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient and NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL 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 Quadro4 980 XGL

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient

Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 150 nm
378.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1894 vs 5
Around 96% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 355 vs 181

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 April 2018 vs 12 November 2002
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1894 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark	355 vs 181

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1894

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

355

181

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient	NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL
PassMark - G3D Mark	1894	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	355	181
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 Quadro4 980 XGL
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Kelvin
Code name	Raven	NV28 A2
Launch date	23 April 2018	12 November 2002
Place in performance rating	973	972
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	36 million
Texture fill rate		2.4 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	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	8.1
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		650 MHz
Memory type		DDR