AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 48 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 48 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Boost Clock775MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 48 +643%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 48

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Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

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

-

Base Clock

725 MHz

-

Boost Clock

775 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

48

Compute Units

10

3072

Shading Units

640

192

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

76.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

14.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.373 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

460.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Venus

Vega 10 PRO

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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