AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega II to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 475W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 86% (1720MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (825.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega II +325%

14.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon Pro Vega II

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jun 2019

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1574 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1720 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

806 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

825.3GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

64

-

1792

Shading Units

4096

112

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.1 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

440.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

28.18 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.09 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

7.045 TFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

475W

550 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 4x Thunderbolt

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Vega 20

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

331 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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