AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs Radeon RX Vega 8
[ VERDICT ]
Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to Radeon RX Vega 8 (20/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.
Benchmark Performance Comparison
Normalized Lab Scores| Benchmark | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| 4K Gaming | 91.0 Excellent | — |
| NanoReview Score | 85.0 Very Good | — |
| Rasterization | 94.0 Excellent | — |
| Ray Tracing | 78.0 Very Good | — |
| Efficiency | — | 81.0 Very Good |
| Gaming | — | 6.0 Poor |
Detailed Technical Specifications
Memory
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit) | — |
| ECC | — | No |
| Effective Memory Speed | — | System RAM Dependent |
| Memory Clock | — | System RAM Dependent |
| Memory Size | — | System RAM Dependent |
| Memory Type | — | System Shared |
Performance
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) | GCN 5.0 |
| Stream Processors | 6,144 Stream Processors | — |
Power
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Tdp | 355W TBP | — |
3D Mark
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Fire Strike | — | 4497 |
| Night Raid | — | 18010 |
| Time Spy | — | 1410 |
| Wild Life Extreme | — | 2532 |
API
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| DLSS | — | No |
| DirectX | — | 12 |
| OpenCL | — | 2.0 |
| OpenGL | — | 4.6 |
| Ray Tracing | — | No |
| Vulkan | — | 1.3 |
Games
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p High | — | 16 |
| 1080p Ultra | — | 12 |
| 1440p Ultra | — | 9 |
| 4K Ultra | — | - |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | — | 221714- |
| Counter-Strike 2 | — | 271612- |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | — | ---- |
| Far Cry 6 | — | 201710- |
| Forza Horizon 5 | — | 251110- |
| Ghost of Tsushima | — | 129-- |
| Hogwarts Legacy | — | 11--- |
| Margin of Error | — | Low |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | — | 141310- |
| The Witcher 3 | — | 910-- |
GeekBench 6 ML
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Backend | — | DirectML |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | — | 3885 |
| Face Detection (HP) | — | 2819 |
| Framework | — | ONNX |
| Image Classification (SP) | — | 924 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | — | 1148 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | — | 2211 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | — | 1021 |
| Object Detection (SP) | — | 1040 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | — | 7106 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | — | 14495 |
| Text Classification (SP) | — | 832 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| API | — | OpenCL |
| Background Blur | — | 21.2 img/sec |
| Edge Detection | — | 0.65 Gpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | — | 10.9 img/sec |
| Feature Matching | — | 0.13 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | — | 0.51 Gpixels/sec |
| Horizon Detection | — | 0.34 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | — | 1322.9 FPS |
| Stereo Matching | — | 34.9 Gpixels/sec |
General
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) | GCN 5.0 |
| Build | — | Integrated |
| Case | — | Laptop |
| GPU Codename | — | Raven |
| Purpose | — | Generic |
| Recommended CPU | — | -AMD Ryzen 7 4800Uor above |
| Released | — | February 13, 2018 |
| Segment | — | Entry-level |
| 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 |
| Vendor | — | Amd |
Graphics Processing Unit
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Base Clock | — | 300 MHz |
| Boost Clock | — | 1100-2100 MHz (configurable) |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | — | 8 |
| Instructions Per Cycle | — | 2 IPC |
| Ray-tracing Cores | — | No |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | — | 8 |
| Shading Units | — | 512 |
| Tensor Cores | — | No |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | — | 32 |
Passmark Graphics
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX 11 | — | 10 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | — | 8 FPS |
| G2D Mark | — | 398 |
| GPU Compute | — | 861 Ops/s |
Physical
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Die Size | — | 210 mm² |
| Fabrication Process | — | 7 nm |
| Interface | — | IGP |
| Manufacturing | — | TSMC |
| TGP | — | 25 W |
| Transistor Count | — | 4.94 billion |
| Transistor Density | — | 23.52 MTr/mm² |
Raw Performance
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Pixel Fill Rate | — | 9-17 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | — | 35-67 GTexel/s |
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