Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs GeForce 305M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 305M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1250MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
3568 additional rendering cores
GeForce 305M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (14W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Vega 56
+24116%
8960
GeForce 305M
37
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Jan 2010
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
GeForce 300M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1138 MHz
Base Clock
-
1250 MHz
Boost Clock
-
786 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR3
2048bit
Memory Bus
64bit
402.4GB/s
Bandwidth
11.20GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
3584
Shading Units
16
224
TMUs
8
64
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
80.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.100 GPixel/s
280.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.200 GTexel/s
17.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.960 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
36.80 GFLOPS
560.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
210W
TDP
14W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
GT218
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
N11M-LP1
GCN 5.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
