AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

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AMD Radeon HD 8870M

AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1011MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL +160%

2.588 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

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Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2018

Solar System

Generation

Vega

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

IGP

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

931 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

1011 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

1024bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

20

-

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.35 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.88 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.588 TFLOPS

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.588 TFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

161.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

65W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

Polaris 22

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

VegaM MGL XL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

5 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

208 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

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6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.4

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