AMD Radeon Sky 900 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Mar 2013
Aug 2017
Generation
Radeon Sky
Vega
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
825 MHz
1156 MHz
Boost Clock
950 MHz
1471 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
800 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
384bit
2048bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
409.6GB/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
30.40 GPixel/s
94.14 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
106.4 GTexel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.405 TFLOPS
10.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
851.2 GFLOPS
659.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
21.09 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
Vega 10
GPU Variant
Orthrus
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
300W
210W
Suggested PSU
700 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 8-pin

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

📊 Benchmark

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