Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
2784 additional rendering cores
Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Vega 56
+700%
8960
Mobility Radeon HD 5870
1120
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Jan 2010
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
Manhattan
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
1000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5
2048bit
Memory Bus
128bit
402.4GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
10
3584
Shading Units
800
224
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
80.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.20 GPixel/s
280.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.00 GTexel/s
17.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.960 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1120 GFLOPS
560.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
210W
TDP
50W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
Broadway
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
Broadway XT
(216-0769008)
GCN 5.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
1.04 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
166 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
