AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH

The AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH is an integrated GPU in the fastest Intel Kaby-Lake-G SoC. It combines a Kaby-Lake processor, a Vega graphics card and 4 GB HBM2 memory on a single package. The graphics card offers 24 CUs (1536 shaders) and is clocked from 1063 - 1190 MHz.

Currently it looks like the GPU is a mixture of Polaris (Shaders?) and Vega (HBM memory controller at least). E.g. the graphics card is called Polaris 22 internally. Detailed information on the Vega architecture can be found in our dedicated article about the Raven Ridge architecture.

The performance of the Vega M GH should be slightly slower than a dedicated Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 for laptops according to benchmarks from Intel. Therefore, it should be well suited for 1080p and high resolution gaming.

The power consumption should be quite similar to a dedicated Vega Mobile GPU, but due to the small form factor, smaller laptops can be built with the Kaby-Lake-G SoC. The TDP is specified at 65 Watt for the whole package including GPU, CPU and HBM2 memory.

Manufacturer

AMD

AMD Radeon RX Vega Series

RX Vega 64 (compare)	8192 @ 1630 MHz	2048 Bit @ 945 MHz
Vega Mobile (compare)	1792
Vega M GH	1536 @ 1063 - 1190 (Boost) MHz
Vega M GL / 870 (compare)	1280 @ 931 - 1011 (Boost) MHz
WX Vega M GL (compare)	1280 @ 931 - 1011 (Boost) MHz
Vega 11 (compare)	704 @ 1240 (Boost) MHz
Vega 10 (compare)	640 @ 1300 (Boost) MHz
Vega 8 (compare)	512 @ 1100 (Boost) MHz
Vega 6 (compare)	384 @ 1100 (Boost) MHz
Vega 3 (compare)	192 @ 1000 (Boost) MHz

Codename

Vega Kaby Lake-G

Architecture

Vega

Pipelines

1536 - unified

Core Speed

1063 - 1190 (Boost) MHz

Memory Type

HBM2

Max. Amount of Memory

4096 MB

Shared Memory

DirectX

DirectX 12_1

technology

14 nm

Features

Tiled Rasterization, Shared Memory (up to Dual-Channel DDR4-2400)

Notebook Size

medium sized

Date of Announcement

07.01.2018

CPU		GPU Base Speed	GPU Boost / Turbo
Intel Core i7-8809G	4 x 3100 MHz, 100 W	1063 MHz	1190 MHz
Intel Core i7-8709G	4 x 3100 MHz, 100 W	1063 MHz	1190 MHz
min. - max.		1063 - 1063 MHz	1190 - 1190 MHz

Benchmarks

3DMark - Time Spy Score 2560x1440

min: 2902 avg: 2999 median: 2999 (28%) max: 3096 Points

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3DMark - Time Spy Graphics 2560x1440

2908 Points (22%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen

357446 Points (76%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080

282345 Points (39%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

25445 Points (51%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

59162 Points (32%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

min: 8506 avg: 9326.5 median: 9326.5 (35%) max: 10147 Points

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

10248 Points (25%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720

319822 Points (43%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

13212 points (44%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

14302 points (28%)

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire -22%

NVIDIA Quadro M5000M -17%

AMD Radeon R9 380 -15%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M -13%

NVIDIA Quadro P3000 -12%

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire -8%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q -6%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M SLI -1%

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire -1%

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M SLI 1%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop) 3%

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) 6%

NVIDIA Quadro P4000 8%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 9%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 10%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M SLI 11%

NVIDIA Quadro P4000 Max-Q 11%

AMD Radeon R9 290X 13%

...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Desktop) 198%

100%

3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

SPECviewperf 12
Solidworks (sw-03) 1900x1060 +

Siemens NX (snx-02) 1900x1060 +

Showcase (showcase-01) 1900x1060 +

Medical (medical-01) 1900x1060 +

Maya (maya-04) 1900x1060 +

Energy (energy-01) 1900x1060 +

Creo (creo-01) 1900x1060 +

Catia (catia-04) 1900x1060 +

Cinebench R10 Shading 32Bit +

Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64Bit +

Cinebench R15
OpenGL 64Bit +

Ref. Match 64Bit +

LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only

1491 Samples/s (28%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only

2867 Samples/s (27%)

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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600

6661 Points (30%)

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Power Consumption - Witcher 3 ultra - Power Consumption *

135.5 Watt (30%)

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Clock Speed - GPU Clock Witcher 3 ultra

1190 MHz (62%)

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Clock Speed - GPU Clock Speed Furmark 1.19 GPU Stress Test 1280x720

1190 MHz (71%)

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- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card

- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.