Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon RX 5900 - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Radeon RX 5900

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Vega Raven Ridge

Navi 21

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

October 2017

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1200 MHz

1635 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

21,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

4096

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

418.6

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

672.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12_1

12 Ultimate (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6