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Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon RX 550X - video card comparison


Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Radeon RX 550X


Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name
Vega Raven Ridge
Lexa

Market segment
Laptop
Desktop

Release date
October 2017
December 2018

Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors
-
None

Boost clock speed
1200 MHz
1183 MHz

Core clock speed
-
1100 MHz

Floating-point performance
-
1,211 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm

Number of transistors
-
2,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
512

Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
50 Watt

Texture fill rate
-
37.86

Memory type
-
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
-
4 GB

Memory bus width
-
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
-
6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth
-
96 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI
-
+

DirectX
12_1
12 (12_0)

OpenCL
-
2.0

OpenGL
-
4.6

Shader Model
-
6.4

Vulkan
-
1.2.131