AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs Vega 7

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 8 with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months newer Vega 7 that utilizes 7 pipelines and 448 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 7 over RX Vega 8
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 8
  • Performs better (up to 33%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 22% higher maximum theoretical performance (2.2 vs 1.8 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 7
  • Achieves 38% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (14K vs 10K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

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

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 +33%
1261
947
Time Spy 1410 1067
Fire Strike 4497 3394
Wild Life Extreme 2532 2013
Night Raid 18010 13085
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 7 +38%
14408
Background Blur 21.2 img/sec 33.7 img/sec
Face Detection 10.9 img/sec 15.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.34 Gpixels/sec 0.35 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.51 Gpixels/sec 0.69 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.13 Gpixels/sec 0.21 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 34.9 Gpixels/sec 54.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1322.9 FPS 1957.6 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
RX Vega 7 +44%
2250
G2D Mark 398 568
DirectX 11 10 FPS 16 FPS
DirectX 12 8 FPS 11 FPS
GPU Compute 861 Ops/s 1215 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 10003 & 88 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 7 +40%
3157
GB6 ML Half Precision
2817
RX Vega 7 +49%
4191
GB6 ML Quantized
1643
RX Vega 7 +44%
2365
Image Classification (SP) 924 1323
Image Segmentation (HP) 1148 1675
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2211 2919
Face Detection (HP) 2819 4386
Pose Estimation (Q) 7106 9348
Text Classification (SP) 832 1024
Machine Translation (HP) 1021 1888
Object Detection (SP) 1040 1452
Depth Estimation (Q) 3885 5272
Style Transfer (SP) 14495 19585
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 8 and Vega 7

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released February 13, 2018 January 7, 2020
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture GCN 5.0 Raven
GPU Codename Raven -
Successor - - Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000)
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 4800U or above - AMD Ryzen 5 5500U 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 7430U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7530U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5625U
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
- AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
- and 4 more
Laptop GPU ranking (126th and 120th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) 1500-2000 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 512 448
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 32 28
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 8
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 7
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 12-16 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 35-67 GTexel/s 42-56 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 8 +22%
1.1-2.2 TFLOPS
1.3-1.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP IGP
TGP 25 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 7 nm
Die Size 210 mm² -
Transistor Count 4.94 billion -
Transistor Density 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 12.1
Vulkan 1.3 -
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.2
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No

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