Radeon RX Vega 8 vs Radeon 760M

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 8 with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 5 years newer Radeon 760M that utilizes 8 pipelines and 512 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 760M over RX Vega 8
Reasons to consider the Radeon 760M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 63%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • 32% higher maximum theoretical performance (2.9 vs 2.2 TFLOPS)
  • Ray-tracing support with 6 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 2.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (22K vs 10K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
11
10
-
41
21
17
9
The Witcher 3
9
10
-
-
19
19
9
-
Counter-Strike 2
27
16
12
-
35
23
19
-
Far Cry 6
20
17
10
-
32
24
19
-
Hogwarts Legacy
11
-
-
-
15
12
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
22
17
14
-
28
24
17
10
Ghost of Tsushima
12
9
-
-
19
11
9
-
Cyberpunk 2077
-
-
-
-
14
16
9
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
14
13
10
-
26
23
14
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 16 25
1080p Ultra 12 19
1440p Ultra 9 13
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
1261
2056
Time Spy 1410 2372
Solar Bay - 9378
Port Royal - 975
Fire Strike 4497 7074
Wild Life Extreme 2532 4630
Night Raid 18010 29486
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
10472
Radeon 760M +116%
22589
Background Blur 21.2 img/sec 57.8 img/sec
Face Detection 10.9 img/sec 28.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.34 Gpixels/sec 0.8 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 1 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.51 Gpixels/sec 0.82 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.29 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 34.9 Gpixels/sec 85.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1322.9 FPS 2844.5 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
Radeon 760M +240%
5311
G2D Mark 398 890
DirectX 11 10 FPS 52 FPS
DirectX 12 8 FPS 25 FPS
GPU Compute 861 Ops/s 2838 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]10003 & 2585 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
n/a
256.32
Sources: Blender [9]35 samples

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
2257
Radeon 760M +259%
8097
GB6 ML Half Precision
2817
Radeon 760M +299%
11246
GB6 ML Quantized
1643
Radeon 760M +265%
6004
Image Classification (SP) 924 3449
Image Segmentation (HP) 1148 4098
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2211 7937
Face Detection (HP) 2819 12168
Pose Estimation (Q) 7106 29915
Text Classification (SP) 832 2571
Machine Translation (HP) 1021 3852
Object Detection (SP) 1040 2687
Depth Estimation (Q) 3885 14163
Style Transfer (SP) 14495 59966
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 8 and Radeon 760M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 13, 2018 January 4, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture GCN 5.0 RDNA 3.0
GPU Codename Raven Phoenix
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
Successor - - Radeon 8040S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 4800U or above - AMD Ryzen 5 7640U 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 5 230
- AMD Ryzen 5 240
- AMD Ryzen 5 8600G
- AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS
- AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS
- AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7640U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS
Laptop GPU ranking (125th and 110th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) 2600-2800 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 8
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No 6
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 42-45 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 35-67 GTexel/s 83-90 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.1-2.2 TFLOPS
2.7-2.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 25 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 4 nm
Die Size 210 mm² 178 mm²
Transistor Count 4.94 billion 25.4 billion
Transistor Density 23.52 MTr/mm² 142.7 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 -

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.1
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 2.1

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