Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon VII
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon VII 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1750MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (295W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
Radeon VII
+134%
13440
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Feb 2019
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Vega II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1400 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1750 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
512bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1020GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
60
2816
Shading Units
3840
176
TMUs
240
64
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
112.0 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
420.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.88 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.44 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.360 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
295W
900 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Vega 20
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Vega 20 XT
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 5.1
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
13.23 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
331 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
6.3
Shader Model
6.7
