AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M470

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 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 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1250MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +483%

8.96 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Aug 2017

Gem System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

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

1250 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

56

-

768

Shading Units

3584

48

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

80.00 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.92 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.960 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

560.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

210W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Vega 10

Emerald PRO

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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