AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs AMD FirePro M5950

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

AMD FirePro M5950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1250MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

3104 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +1187%

8.96 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

0.696 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

FirePro M5950

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jan 2011

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

-

1250 MHz

Boost Clock

-

786 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

6

-

3584

Shading Units

480

224

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.800 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

210W

TDP

35W

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Whistler

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Whistler XT GL

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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