AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2018
Jan 2013
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Sea Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1138 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1301 MHz
-
Memory Clock
800 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR5
Memory Bus
2048bit
384bit
Bandwidth
409.6GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
56
32
Shading Units
3584
2048
TMUs
224
128
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
83.26 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
291.4 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
18.65 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
9.326 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
582.8 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Vega 10
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
GCN 5.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12.5 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
495 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
250W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
600 W
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