AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded vs NVIDIA GeForce 800A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded and NVIDIA GeForce 800A 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded

NVIDIA GeForce 800A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1581 vs 477
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 410 vs 165

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 February 2018 vs 17 March 2014
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1581 vs 477
PassMark - G2D Mark	410 vs 165

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 800A

2.5x more core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	738 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 800A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1581

477

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

410

165

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded	NVIDIA GeForce 800A
PassMark - G3D Mark	1581	477
PassMark - G2D Mark	410	165
Geekbench - OpenCL	8763
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	25.891
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	365.4
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.104
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	37.17
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	132.07
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1514
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2433
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6729
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1514
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2433
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	6729
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	705

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded	NVIDIA GeForce 800A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Owl	GF119
Launch date	13 February 2018	17 March 2014
Place in performance rating	957	960
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	738 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	292 million
Floating-point performance		141.7 gflops
Pipelines		48
Texture fill rate		5.904 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3