AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M 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 HD 8970M 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (307.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 16 +5%

2.437 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 16

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Nov 2018

Solar System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

815 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

1024bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

307.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

16

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.16 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.874 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.437 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Vega 12

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Vega 12 XLA

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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