Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano vs Radeon HD 8670 OEM

Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano
Memory: 8192Mb HBM2DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Aug 2017
Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano
Radeon HD 8670 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8670 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8670 OEM

175 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano .
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano

HWBench recommends Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 64 NanoRadeon HD 8670 OEM
GPU NameVega 10 (Vega 10 XT)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size484 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors12,500 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders4096vs384
Compute Units64vs6
Core clock1156 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs64vs8
TMUs256vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 64 NanoRadeon HD 8670 OEM
Memory TypeHBM2vsGDDR5
Bus Width2048 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX Vega 64 NanoRadeon HD 8670 OEM
TDP250 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date8 Aug 2017vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano
    79.81 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano
    319.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano
    409.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano
    10215.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better