Radeon Vega 8 vs HD Graphics 4000 Mobile (Ivy Bridge GT2)

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
HD Graphics 4000 Mobile (Ivy Bridge GT2)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2012
HD Graphics 4000 Mobile (Ivy Bridge GT2)

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Vega 8

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD Graphics 4000 Mobile (Ivy Bridge GT2)


Radeon Vega 8

HWBench recommends Radeon Vega 8

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Vega 8HD Graphics 4000 Mobile (Ivy Bridge GT2)
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsIvy Bridge GT2 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs22 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs133 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs392 million
Shaders512vs16
Compute Units8vs0
Core clock300 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs16vs2
TMUs32vs4

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8HD Graphics 4000 Mobile (Ivy Bridge GT2)
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsSystem Shared
Bus WidthSystem SharedvsSystem Shared
Memory SpeedSystem SharedvsSystem Shared
Memory Size0 Mbvs0 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8HD Graphics 4000 Mobile (Ivy Bridge GT2)
TDP65 wattsvs45 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs14 May 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • HD Graphics 4000 Mobile (Ivy Bridge GT2)
    1.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • HD Graphics 4000 Mobile (Ivy Bridge GT2)
    2.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • HD Graphics 4000 Mobile (Ivy Bridge GT2)
    0.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • HD Graphics 4000 Mobile (Ivy Bridge GT2)
    20.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better