Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce 920M

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
GeForce 920M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 920M

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GeForce 920M

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon Vega 8

HWBench recommends Radeon Vega 8

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Vega 8GeForce 920M
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsGK208 (N16V-GM)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvsunknown
Shaders512vs384
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock300 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8GeForce 920M
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsDDR3
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs64 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8GeForce 920M
TDP65 wattsvs33 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • GeForce 920M
    7.63 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 920M
    30.53 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 920M
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 920M
    732.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better