AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 20 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1283MHz vs 900MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (189.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 20 +42%

3.284 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 20

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jan 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

815 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1283 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

740 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

1024bit

Memory Bus

256bit

189.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

20

-

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

41.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

102.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

6.569 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.284 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

205.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 12

GPU Name

Neptune

Vega 12 XTA

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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