AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs Vega 11

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 8 with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the Vega 11 that utilizes 11 pipelines and 704 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 RX Vega 11 over RX Vega 8
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 8
  • Performs slightly better (up to 17%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 11
  • Achieves 28% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (13K vs 10K)
  • Has 38% more shading units (704 vs 512)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
11
10
-
19
10
-
-
The Witcher 3
9
10
-
-
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
27
16
12
-
22
16
11
-
Far Cry 6
20
17
10
-
16
14
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
11
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
22
17
14
-
20
14
12
-
Ghost of Tsushima
12
9
-
-
12
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
14
13
10
-
14
13
9
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 16 14
1080p Ultra 12 10
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 +17%
1261
1082
Time Spy 1410 1148
Fire Strike 4497 3781
Wild Life Extreme 2532 2424
Night Raid 18010 14555
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
10472
RX Vega 11 +28%
13375
Background Blur 21.2 img/sec 33.1 img/sec
Face Detection 10.9 img/sec 14.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.34 Gpixels/sec 0.45 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.72 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.51 Gpixels/sec 0.6 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 34.9 Gpixels/sec 45.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1322.9 FPS 1490.9 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
RX Vega 11 +34%
2087
G2D Mark 398 504
DirectX 11 10 FPS 13 FPS
DirectX 12 8 FPS 11 FPS
GPU Compute 861 Ops/s 1342 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 10003 & 4504 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
n/a
88.84
Sources: Blender [9] – 17 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
RX Vega 11 +24%
2806
GB6 ML Half Precision
2817
RX Vega 11 +41%
3981
GB6 ML Quantized
1643
RX Vega 11 +26%
2067
Image Classification (SP) 924 1115
Image Segmentation (HP) 1148 1530
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2211 2611
Face Detection (HP) 2819 3671
Pose Estimation (Q) 7106 9385
Text Classification (SP) 832 972
Machine Translation (HP) 1021 1490
Object Detection (SP) 1040 1196
Depth Estimation (Q) 3885 4845
Style Transfer (SP) 14495 21060
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 8 and Vega 11

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 13, 2018 February 13, 2018
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 5.0
GPU Codename Raven Raven
Rival Equivalent - - GeForce MX250
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 4800U or above - AMD Ryzen 5 2400G 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 2400G
- AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Laptop GPU ranking (127th and 146th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) 1250-1400 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 704
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 44
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 11
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 9-17 GPixel/s 20-22 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 35-67 GTexel/s 55-62 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 8 +10%
1.1-2.2 TFLOPS
1.8-2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP IGP
TGP 25 W 25 W
Manufacturing TSMC GlobalFoundries
Fabrication Process 7 nm 14 nm
Die Size 210 mm² 210 mm²
Transistor Count 4.94 billion 4.94 billion
Transistor Density 23.52 MTr/mm² 23.52 MTr/mm²

Memory

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

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2.131
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No

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