AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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 39% (1250MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +288%

8.96 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jan 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1250 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

20

-

3584

Shading Units

1280

224

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

100W

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Neptune

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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