AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD FirePro S9050

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

AMD FirePro S9050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 12GB VRAM FirePro S9050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock1471MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (210W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro S9050 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +226%

10.54 TFLOPS

FirePro S9050

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

FirePro S9050

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Aug 2014

Vega

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

28

-

3584

Shading Units

1792

224

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

225W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

352 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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