Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1250MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 174.3GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (210W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Vega 56
+157%
8960
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
3482
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Nov 2014
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
Crystal System
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
1362 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5
2048bit
Memory Bus
256bit
402.4GB/s
Bandwidth
174.3GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
32
3584
Shading Units
2048
224
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
80.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
280.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
17.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
3.482 TFLOPS
8.960 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
560.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
217.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
210W
TDP
250W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
Amethyst
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
GCN 5.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
5 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
