Radeon Vega 8 vs Radeon R5 M430

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
Radeon R5 M430
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 15 May 2016
Radeon R5 M430

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 M430

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 M430
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsJet (Jet PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders512vs320
Compute Units8vs5
Core clock300 MHzvs780 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon R5 M430
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsDDR3
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs64 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8Radeon R5 M430
TDP65 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs15 May 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 M430
    6.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 M430
    17.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 M430
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 M430
    547.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better