AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M OEM 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 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1250MHz vs 1085MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +545%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M OEM

1.389 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +396%

521

GeForce GTX 860M OEM

105

Radeon Pro Vega 56

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GeForce GTX 860M OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Feb 2015

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

1020 MHz

1250 MHz

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

640

224

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GM107

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

N15P-GX-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Maxwell

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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