AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs Radeon RX Vega 8

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to Radeon RX Vega 8 (20/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent —
DeviceBenchmark Score 85.0 Very Good —
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent —
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good —
Efficiency — 81.0 Very Good
Gaming — 6.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit) —
ECC — No
Effective Memory Speed — System RAM Dependent
Memory Clock — System RAM Dependent
Memory Size — System RAM Dependent
Memory Type — System Shared

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) GCN 5.0
Stream Processors 6,144 Stream Processors —

Power

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
Tdp 355W TBP —

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
Fire Strike — 4497
Night Raid — 18010
Time Spy — 1410
Wild Life Extreme — 2532

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
DLSS — No
DirectX — 12
OpenCL — 2.0
OpenGL — 4.6
Ray Tracing — No
Vulkan — 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
1080p High — 16
1080p Ultra — 12
1440p Ultra — 9
4K Ultra — -
CoD: Modern Warfare III — 221714-
Counter-Strike 2 — 271612-
Cyberpunk 2077 — ----
Far Cry 6 — 201710-
Forza Horizon 5 — 251110-
Ghost of Tsushima — 129--
Hogwarts Legacy — 11---
Margin of Error — Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider — 141310-
The Witcher 3 — 910--

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
Backend — DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) — 3885
Face Detection (HP) — 2819
Framework — ONNX
Image Classification (SP) — 924
Image Segmentation (HP) — 1148
Image Super Resolution (Q) — 2211
Machine Translation (HP) — 1021
Object Detection (SP) — 1040
Pose Estimation (Q) — 7106
Style Transfer (SP) — 14495
Text Classification (SP) — 832

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
API — OpenCL
Background Blur — 21.2 img/sec
Edge Detection — 0.65 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection — 10.9 img/sec
Feature Matching — 0.13 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur — 0.51 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection — 0.34 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics — 1322.9 FPS
Stereo Matching — 34.9 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) GCN 5.0
Build — Integrated
Case — Laptop
GPU Codename — Raven
Purpose — Generic
Recommended CPU — -AMD Ryzen 7 4800Uor above
Released — February 13, 2018
Segment — Entry-level
Used in CPUs — -AMD Ryzen 7 7730U-AMD Ryzen 7 5825U-AMD Ryzen 7 5700G-AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U-AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS-AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX-AMD Ryzen 7 5700U-AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS- and 8 more
Vendor — Amd

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
Base Clock — 300 MHz
Boost Clock — 1100-2100 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) — 8
Instructions Per Cycle — 2 IPC
Ray-tracing Cores — No
Render Output Units (ROPs) — 8
Shading Units — 512
Tensor Cores — No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) — 32

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
DirectX 11 — 10 FPS
DirectX 12 — 8 FPS
G2D Mark — 398
GPU Compute — 861 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
Die Size — 210 mm²
Fabrication Process — 7 nm
Interface — IGP
Manufacturing — TSMC
TGP — 25 W
Transistor Count — 4.94 billion
Transistor Density — 23.52 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX Vega 8
Pixel Fill Rate — 9-17 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate — 35-67 GTexel/s

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