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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2013 Aug 2017
Generation Southern Islands Radeon Pro Mac
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 786 MHz
Base Clock 1138 MHz
Boost Clock 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 HBM2
Memory Bus 384bit 2048bit
Bandwidth 240.0GB/s 402.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 28 56
Shading Units 1792 3584
TMUs 112 224
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB 4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 25.60 GPixel/s 80.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 89.60 GTexel/s 280.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.867 TFLOPS 8.960 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 716.8 GFLOPS 560.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 17.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Vega 10
GPU Variant Tahiti PRO(215-0821056) Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 5.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 12.5 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 495 mm²
Board Design
TDP 200W 210W
Suggested PSU 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.4