AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

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AMD Radeon HD 8790M AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 16 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1190MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (307.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8790M

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 16 +252%

2.437 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 16

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Nov 2018

Solar System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

815 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

1024bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

307.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

16

384

Shading Units

1024

24

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.16 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.874 TFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.437 TFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

Vega 12

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

GPU Variant

Vega 12 XLA

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

Unknown

77 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.3

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