AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

AMD Radeon R9 M270X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 16 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X 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 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1190MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (307.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 16 +58%

2.437 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 16

VS

Radeon R9 M270X

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Feb 2015

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

815 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

1024bit

Memory Bus

128bit

307.2GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

12

-

1024

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

76.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

4.874 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.437 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

152.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 12

GPU Name

Saturn

Vega 12 XLA

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.08 billion

Unknown

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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