AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M 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 HD 8870M 's Advantages

Boost Clock775MHz

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 48 +643%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 48

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Mar 2019

Solar System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

-

775 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

48

-

640

Shading Units

3072

40

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.75 TFLOPS

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.373 TFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

460.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

Vega 10

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

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

1.3

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.7

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