AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs ATI FirePro V7900

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 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 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V7900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +467%

10.54 TFLOPS

FirePro V7900

1.856 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

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FirePro V7900

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

May 2011

Vega

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

20

3584

Shading Units

1280

224

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.856 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Cayman

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO GL

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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