AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 X2 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 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (210W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +105%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 X2

5.12 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

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Radeon R9 390 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Sep 2015

Vega

Generation

Pirate Islands

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

1350 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

512bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

40

3584

Shading Units

2560

224

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

160.0 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.120 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

640.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Grenada

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

580W

550 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

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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