AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

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AMD Radeon R9 M280X

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1301MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile +420%

9.326 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

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Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Jun 2018

Gem System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1138 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1301 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

56

-

896

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

83.26 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

291.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.65 TFLOPS

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.326 TFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

582.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

120W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Vega 10

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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