AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 48 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 48 +238%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 48

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Mar 2019

London

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

48

-

1280

Shading Units

3072

80

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.75 TFLOPS

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.373 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

460.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

Vega 10

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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