AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 48 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Boost Clock967MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 48 +183%

7.373 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 48

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Mar 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

941 MHz

-

Boost Clock

967 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

192bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

48

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

1344

192

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

76.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

14.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.373 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

460.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GK104

Vega 10 PRO

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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