Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs Radeon E9550 MXM
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 8GB VRAM Radeon E9550 MXM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Radeon E9550 MXM 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1266MHz vs 1250MHz)
Lower TDP (95W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Vega 56
+53%
8960
Radeon E9550 MXM
5834
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Sep 2016
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1138 MHz
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1250 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
786 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5
2048bit
Memory Bus
256bit
402.4GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
36
3584
Shading Units
2304
224
TMUs
144
64
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
80.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
280.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
17.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.834 TFLOPS
8.960 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.834 TFLOPS
560.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
364.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
210W
TDP
95W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
GCN 5.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
