AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1250MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +348%

8.96 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Nov 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

975 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

16

3584

Shading Units

1024

224

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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

Board Design

210W

TDP

80W

-

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_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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