Review and testing of a video card for AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 laptops: Test | Specs | CPU | Config

The senior representative of the Raven Ridge family, this is the codename AMD named the Radeon RX Vega 11 promises a theoretical peak performance of 1.76 teraflops, which is comparable to the performance of not only the GeForce GTX 1030, but also the GeForce GTX 1050. However, you need to understand that on In practice, the graphics performance of the Radeon RX Vega 11 is significantly constrained by the memory bandwidth. The Radeon RX Vega 11 has the maximum number of stream processors for this architecture (704), which in quantitative terms is 38 percent more than the arsenal possessed by the solutions of the Kaveri, Carrizo and Bristol Ridge generations. Added to this is a roughly 13% increase in graphics frequency, an increased number of texture units (from 32 to 44) and rasterization (from 8 to 16), as well as a high maximum TDP of 65W, which can be downgraded to 35W.

According to the first 3DMark Fire Strike benchmarking that AMD has posted, Vega 11 offers similar performance as the older Radeon R9 M280X discrete graphics card. However, in games, not having their own dedicated memory can be a bottleneck. The maximum frequency at which the Radeon RX Vega 11 runs is 1250 MHz. There is support for DirectX 12 with feature level 12_1, OpenGL 4.6, Open CL 2.0 and Vulkan 1.0 and probably 1.1.

Specifications

Synthetic tests

3DMark

3DMark Fire Strike is a beautiful and popular application with DirectX 11 API support for testing computers with high-performance gaming graphics cards in the Windows environment. 3DMark Fire Strike results help you evaluate the comparative performance of a video card and its suitability for the most demanding PC games.

3DMark – Fire Strike Graphics 1920×1080

Nvidia GeForce MX150 (Intel Core i5-8250U)

3739

AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 (AMD Ryzen 5 2400G)

3599

Nvidia GeForce MX130 (Intel Core i5-8250U)

2445

AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 (AMD Ryzen 7 2700U)

2469

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (AMD Ryzen 3 2200G)

2036

Nvidia GeForce MX110 (Intel Core i5-8250U)

1732

AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (AMD Ryzen 3 2300U)

1506

UHD Intel Graphics 630 (Intel Core i7-8086K)

1439

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (AMD Ryzen 3 3200U)

1301

Literally FPS stands for “Frame per second”, or frames per second. Accordingly, the larger this number, the smoother the picture will be on the display during the game. How much FPS is needed for a comfortable game? It is difficult to unequivocally answer this question, if only because in different game engines with the same number of frames per second, the image quality can be different. However, there is a widespread belief that 30 FPS will be enough for a smooth game.

For the integrated video core, the results of Vega 11 are impressive, and if desired, it will really allow you to play all current games, although Vega 11 is inferior in performance to discrete mobile video cards of the level of GTX 1050 and Radeon RX560. AAA projects, even at the lowest graphics quality settings, turn out to be a serious task for the Radeon Vega 11; nevertheless, all tested games demonstrate a playable frame rate with drawdowns of at least 30 FPS. Next, we tested the RX Vega 11 in popular games on medium and low graphics settings with a display resolution of 1280×720 and 1920×1080 pixels, based on the indicator of 60 frames / sec (FPS).