Review and testing of a video card for AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 laptops : Test | Specs | CPU | Config

The Radeon Vega 3 is a mobile integrated graphics solution from AMD that is embedded in the Ryzen 3 series processors. This graphics processor is built on the 14 nm standard. RX Vega 3 uses the modern Vega architecture (GCN generation 5) and has three shader clusters, that is, 192 processing cores out of 704 possible. The performance of an integrated video card depends on the processor in which it is integrated, TDP (12 to 25 W), cooling capabilities and the memory used in the laptop.

As already noted, Radeon Vega 3 includes 192 stream processors, 12 texture units, and 4 ROPs. The GPU runs at a frequency of 300 MHz, which can be increased up to 1011 MHz. The Vega architecture, compared to Polaris, has many new features – including support for DirectX 12 Feature Level 12_1.

With a 14nm manufacturing process and various built-in power-saving options, the power consumption of the RX Vega 3 should be very low, which is why Ryzen 3 series processors are used in the thinnest and lightest laptops. The integrated graphics of RX Vega 3 are inferior to both discrete solutions and older brothers Ryzen with video Vega 8 and Vega 11. But in comparison with the built-in from Intel, Vega 3 looks much better when it comes to discrete laptop video cards, then Vega 3 is not inferior to the GeForce 910M. 920M.

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 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

UHD Intel Graphics 620 (Intel Core i7-8086K)

1343

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.

Gaming performance

The gaming performance of AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 will not pull out most of the modern games, especially for resource-intensive games like Metro Exodus, less demanding games such as Fortnite and Overwatch will run freely at HD resolution and low detail settings. On laptops with a graphics card, you can play the old levels of BioShock Infinite without problems, even at high graphics settings. Next, we tested AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 in popular games at low graphics settings with a display resolution of 1280×720 pixels, we took as a basis the indicator of 60 frames / sec (FPS).