Radeon Vega 8 vs Radeon HD 8670D IGP

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
Radeon HD 8670D IGP
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2013
Radeon HD 8670D IGP

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 8670D IGP

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 8670D IGP
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsDevastator ()
Fab Process14 nmvs32 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs246 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs1,303 million
Shaders512vs384
Compute Units8vs6
Core clock300 MHzvs844 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon HD 8670D IGP
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsSystem Shared
Bus WidthSystem SharedvsSystem Shared
Memory SpeedSystem SharedvsSystem Shared
Memory Size0 Mbvs0 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8Radeon HD 8670D IGP
TDP65 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs12 Mar 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8670D IGP
    6.75 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8670D IGP
    20.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8670D IGP
    0.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8670D IGP
    648.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better