Radeon RX Vega 8 vs Radeon 610M

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 8 with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 4 years and 8 months newer Radeon 610M that utilizes 2 pipelines and 128 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Radeon 610M over RX Vega 8
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 8
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.8x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (2.2 vs 0.6 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2.1x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (10K vs 5K)
  • Has 4x more shading units (512 vs 128)
Reasons to consider the Radeon 610M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 2 dedicated RT cores

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
11
10
-
11
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
9
10
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
27
16
12
-
16
11
-
-
Far Cry 6
20
17
10
-
9
-
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
11
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
22
17
14
-
13
11
9
-
Ghost of Tsushima
12
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
-
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
14
13
10
-
-
9
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 16 9
1080p Ultra 12 -
1440p Ultra 9 -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX Vega 8 +183%
1261
Time Spy 1410 519
Solar Bay - 2068
Port Royal - 291
Fire Strike 4497 1745
Wild Life Extreme 2532 998
Night Raid 18010 7335
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX Vega 8 +105%
10472
Background Blur 21.2 img/sec 12 img/sec
Face Detection 10.9 img/sec 6.42 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.34 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.23 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.51 Gpixels/sec 0.16 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.07 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 34.9 Gpixels/sec 18.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1322.9 FPS 828.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
1562
1799
G2D Mark 398 535
DirectX 11 10 FPS 17 FPS
DirectX 12 8 FPS 7 FPS
GPU Compute 861 Ops/s 768 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 10003 & 194 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 47 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX Vega 8
No benchmark results yet
Radeon 610M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-05-05 (StarSophia)Steel Nomad Light614

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX Vega 8 +18%
2257
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX Vega 8 +37%
2817
GB6 ML Quantized
RX Vega 8 +5%
1643
Image Classification (SP) 924 660
Image Segmentation (HP) 1148 627
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2211 2053
Face Detection (HP) 2819 2153
Pose Estimation (Q) 7106 5787
Text Classification (SP) 832 713
Machine Translation (HP) 1021 1114
Object Detection (SP) 1040 709
Depth Estimation (Q) 3885 3233
Style Transfer (SP) 14495 11091
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 8 and Radeon 610M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 13, 2018 October 1, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture GCN 5.0 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Raven Mendocino
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 4800U or above - AMD Ryzen 5 7520U or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U
- AMD Ryzen 7 5825U
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
- AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS
- AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
- AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS
- and 8 more
- AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 9850HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
- AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
- AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
- AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D
- and 6 more
Laptop GPU ranking (127th and 126th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) 1900-2200 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 128
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 8
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 4
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 2
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No 2
L1 Cache - 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache - 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 9-17 GPixel/s 8-9 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 35-67 GTexel/s 15-18 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 8 +267%
1.1-2.2 TFLOPS
0.5-0.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 25 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 6 nm
Die Size 210 mm² 122 mm²
Transistor Count 4.94 billion 3.4 billion
Transistor Density 23.52 MTr/mm² 27.87 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size System RAM Dependent -
Memory Clock System RAM Dependent -
Effective Memory Speed System RAM Dependent -
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No

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