Radeon Vega 8 vs Radeon R5 220 OEM

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
Radeon R5 220 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Dec 2013
Radeon R5 220 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 220 OEM

46 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon Vega 8 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 220 OEM
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsCedar (Cedar PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs292 million
Shaders512vs80
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock300 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs32vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon R5 220 OEM
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsDDR3
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs64 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs533 MHz
1066 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8Radeon R5 220 OEM
TDP65 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs21 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 220 OEM
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 220 OEM
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 220 OEM
    8.53 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 220 OEM
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better