AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded vs NVIDIA GeForce 840A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded and NVIDIA GeForce 840A 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 16% higher boost clock speed: 1300 MHz vs 1124 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 33 Watt
  • Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1583 vs 1145
  • Around 68% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 411 vs 245
  • Around 57% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8776 vs 5596
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2433 vs 2314
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 6729 vs 3117
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2433 vs 2314
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 6729 vs 3117
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 February 2018 vs 17 March 2014
Boost clock speed 1300 MHz vs 1124 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1583 vs 1145
PassMark - G2D Mark 411 vs 245
Geekbench - OpenCL 8776 vs 5596
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2433 vs 2314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 6729 vs 3117
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2433 vs 2314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 6729 vs 3117

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840A

  • 3.4x more core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 45% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2188 vs 1514
  • Around 45% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2188 vs 1514
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1029 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2188 vs 1514
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2188 vs 1514

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 840A

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1583
1145
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
411
245
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
8776
5596
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1514
2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2433
2314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6729
3117
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1514
2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2433
2314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6729
3117
Name AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded NVIDIA GeForce 840A
PassMark - G3D Mark 1583 1145
PassMark - G2D Mark 411 245
Geekbench - OpenCL 8776 5596
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 2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2433 2314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 6729 3117
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1514 2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2433 2314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 6729 3117
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 705

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded NVIDIA GeForce 840A

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Maxwell
Code name Owl GM108
Launch date 13 February 2018 17 March 2014
Place in performance rating 965 966
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1300 MHz 1124 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1029 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 4,940 million
Floating-point performance 863.2 gflops
Pipelines 384
Texture fill rate 17.98 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 3.0 x8
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 16.02 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 2002 MHz
Memory type DDR3