AMD Radeon R9 M470X vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

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AMD Radeon R9 M470X AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X 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 14% (1250MHz vs 1100MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +354%

8.96 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X

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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

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1138 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

56

896

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.00 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

17.92 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.960 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

560.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Vega 10

Emerald XT

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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

210W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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