Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs Radeon R7 M260X
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 M260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 75% (1250MHz vs 715MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
3200 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Vega 56
+1532%
8960
Radeon R7 M260X
549
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Dec 2015
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1138 MHz
Base Clock
620 MHz
1250 MHz
Boost Clock
715 MHz
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
6
3584
Shading Units
384
224
TMUs
24
64
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
80.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.720 GPixel/s
280.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.16 GTexel/s
17.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.960 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
549.1 GFLOPS
560.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
210W
TDP
Unknown
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
Opal
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
Opal PRO
GCN 5.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
77 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.2
Vulkan
1.2.170
6.4
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
