AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon R5 A230

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

AMD Radeon R5 A230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 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 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1250MHz vs 855MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +1538%

8.96 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A230

0.547 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

Radeon R5 A230

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jan 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1250 MHz

Boost Clock

855 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

64bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

5

-

3584

Shading Units

320

224

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.840 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.10 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

547.2 GFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

Unknown

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Jet

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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