AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 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 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1250MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +522%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Mar 2015

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

993 MHz

1250 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

640

224

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

75W

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GM107

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

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

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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