AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2017
Apr 2012
Generation
Radeon Pro Mac
London
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1138 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1250 MHz
—
Memory Clock
786 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR5
Memory Bus
2048bit
256bit
Bandwidth
402.4GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
56
20
Shading Units
3584
1280
TMUs
224
80
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
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
280.0 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
17.92 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
8.960 TFLOPS
2.176 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
560.0 GFLOPS
136.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Vega 10
Wimbledon
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
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
100W
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
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.