AMD Radeon Pro Vega II vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega II and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 72% (1720MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (825.3GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (375W vs 475W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega II +243%

14.09 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega II

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2019

Release Date

Unknown

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

Apple MPX

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1574 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1720 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

806 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

825.3GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

32

-

4096

Shading Units

2048

256

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

440.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

28.18 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

7.045 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

475W

TDP

375W

850 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GCN 5.1

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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