Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Xe Arctic Sound - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Xe Arctic Sound

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

Generation 12.5 (2021−2022)

GPU code name

Vega

Arctic Sound

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2020

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

2100 MHz

Core clock speed

900 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

10 nm

Number of transistors

8,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

4096

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

230.4

Memory type

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

32 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1,229 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12_1

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

N/A