Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon HD 8850M - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Radeon HD 8850M
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Vega Raven Ridge
Venus
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2017
December 2012
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Boost clock speed
1200 MHz
725 MHz
Core clock speed
-
575 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
-
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
640
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
-
25.00
Memory type
-
GDDR5, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
-
2 GB
Memory bus width
-
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
32 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12_1
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131