AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 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 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1250MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 174.3GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (210W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +157%

8.96 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

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Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Nov 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

-

1250 MHz

Boost Clock

-

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1362 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

174.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

32

3584

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

80.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

280.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.8 GTexel/s

17.92 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.482 TFLOPS

8.960 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.482 TFLOPS

560.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

217.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Amethyst

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

5 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

250W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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