Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Switch GPU 16nm - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Switch GPU 16nm

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Vega Raven Ridge

GM20B

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

October 2017

August 2019

Interface

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1200 MHz

768 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

256

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.29

Memory type

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12_1

12 (12_1)

CUDA

5.3

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.1