Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs FirePro M8900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1250MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
2624 additional rendering cores
FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Vega 56
+586%
8960
FirePro M8900
1306
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Apr 2011
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1138 MHz
Base Clock
-
1250 MHz
Boost Clock
-
786 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5
2048bit
Memory Bus
256bit
402.4GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
12
3584
Shading Units
960
224
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
80.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
280.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
17.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.960 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
560.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
210W
TDP
75W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
Blackcomb
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT GL
GCN 5.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
