AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 64 and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1350MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

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

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 64 +380%

11.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 64

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

May 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1250 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1350 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

20

-

4096

Shading Units

1280

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

86.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

345.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

22.12 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Neptune

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

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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