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

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2017
Mar 2013
Generation
Radeon Pro Mac
Southern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1138 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1250 MHz
-
Memory Clock
786 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR5
Memory Bus
2048bit
384bit
Bandwidth
402.4GB/s
240.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
56
28
Shading Units
3584
1792
TMUs
224
112
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
80.00 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
280.0 GTexel/s
89.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
17.92 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
8.960 TFLOPS
2.867 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
560.0 GFLOPS
716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Vega 10
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
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
210W
200W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
550 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