Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs Radeon RX 550X Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1250MHz vs 1176MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)
2944 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 550X Mobile 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Vega 56
+495%
8960
Radeon RX 550X Mobile
1505
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Apr 2018
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1138 MHz
Base Clock
1100 MHz
1250 MHz
Boost Clock
1176 MHz
786 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5
2048bit
Memory Bus
64bit
402.4GB/s
Bandwidth
48.00GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
10
3584
Shading Units
640
224
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
80.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.82 GPixel/s
280.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
47.04 GTexel/s
17.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
1.505 TFLOPS
8.960 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.505 TFLOPS
560.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
94.08 GFLOPS
Board Design
210W
TDP
50W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
Polaris 23
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
Polaris 23 MXT
GCN 5.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
103 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
