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AMD Radeon Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Name: AMD Radeon Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Brand: AMD

AMD Radeon Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a Integrated video accelerator from AMD. It began to be released in October 2017. The GPU has a boost frequency of 1100-1200 MHz. It also has a memory frequency of 1200 MHz (DDR4-2400). Its characteristics, as well as benchmark results, are presented in more detail below.

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Basic

Label Name

AMD

Platform

Integrated

Launch Date

October 2017

Former Codename

Raven Ridge / Picasso

Model Name

Radeon Vega 8 Graphics

Generation

Vega

Base Clock

300 MHz

Boost Clock

1100-1200 MHz

Shading Units

The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.

512

Compute Units

TMUs

Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.

Bus Interface

IGP

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

Process Size

14 nm / 12 nm

Architecture

Vega (GCN 5.0)

Used in CPUs

- AMD Ryzen 3 3100U
- AMD Ryzen 5 3501U

Memory Specifications

Memory Size

System Shared

Memory Type

DDR4

Memory Bus

The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.

Up to 128-bit

Memory Clock

1200 MHz (DDR4-2400)

Bandwidth

Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.

Up to 38.4 GB/s

Display and Media

AMD FreeSync

Yes

Theoretical Performance

FP32 (float)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

1.2288 TFlops

Miscellaneous

DirectX

DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_1)

ROPs

The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.