AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon R9 M265X

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 AMD Radeon R9 M265X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M265X 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 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 100% (1250MHz vs 625MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +1020%

8.96 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M265X

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

Radeon R9 M265X

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Mar 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

575 MHz

1250 MHz

Boost Clock

625 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

10

3584

Shading Units

640

224

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

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Venus

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Venus PRO (216-0846009)

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

210W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

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)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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