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Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon HD 8950M - video card comparison


Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Radeon HD 8950M


Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name
Vega
Saturn

Market segment
Laptop
Desktop

Release date
January 2020
May 2013

Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16

Boost clock speed
2100 MHz
-

Core clock speed
-
1075 MHz

Floating-point performance
-
1,651 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
-
2,080 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
768

Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
100 Watt

Texture fill rate
-
51.60

Memory type
-
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
-
2 GB

Memory bus width
-
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
-
5500 MHz

Memory bandwidth
-
88 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
-
No outputs

DirectX
12_1
12 (12_0)

OpenCL
-
2.0

OpenGL
-
4.6

Shader Model
-
6.3

Vulkan
-
1.2.131