AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Aug 2017
Generation
Solar System
Radeon Pro Mac
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
786 MHz
Base Clock
—
1138 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
128bit
2048bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
402.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
56
Shading Units
768
3584
TMUs
48
224
ROPs
16
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
80.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
280.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
8.960 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
560.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
17.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Saturn
Vega 10
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
12.5 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
495 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
210W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
—
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.