AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1250MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +288%

8.96 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Aug 2017

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

1138 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

56

-

1280

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.00 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.92 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.960 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

560.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

210W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Vega 10

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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