Radeon Vega 8 vs Radeon R7 265

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
Radeon R7 265
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 265

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Vega 8

85 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 265 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 265

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Vega 8

HWBench recommends Radeon Vega 8

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon R7 265
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders512vs1024
Compute Units8vs16
Core clock300 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs32vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon R7 265
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs256 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8Radeon R7 265
TDP65 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    59.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 265
    1894.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better