AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 16 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1190MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (307.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 16 +145%

2.437 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 16

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Apr 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

815 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

775 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

1024bit

Memory Bus

128bit

307.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

10

1024

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

76.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

4.874 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.437 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

152.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 12

GPU Name

Venus

Vega 12 XLA

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.5 billion

Unknown

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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