Product Compare

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Aug 2017 Nov 2014
Generation Radeon Pro Mac Crystal System
Type Mobile Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1138 MHz 850 MHz
Boost Clock 1250 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Clock 786 MHz 1365 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 2GB
Memory Type HBM2 GDDR5
Memory Bus 2048bit 256bit
Bandwidth 402.4GB/s 174.7GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 56 16
Shading Units 3584 1024
TMUs 224 64
ROPs 64 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 4 MB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 80.00 GPixel/s 31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 280.0 GTexel/s 62.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 17.92 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 8.960 TFLOPS 1.997 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 560.0 GFLOPS 124.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Vega 10 Pitcairn
GPU Variant Vega 10 XL(215-0894216) Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 28 nm
Transistors 12.5 billion 2.8 billion
Die Size 495 mm² 212 mm²
Board Design
TDP 210W 80W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs
Power Connectors None None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 6.4 5.1