GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 8850M
CORE STATE
Venus
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
625 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX Vega 56
CORE STATE
Vega 10
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1471 MHz
TDP
210 W
BUS WIDTH
2048 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 5.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8850M
RX Vega 56
Core Specs
Shading Units
640
3,584
+460.0%
Shaders
640
3,584
+460.0%
TMUs
40
224
+460.0%
ROPs
16
64
+300.0%
Compute Units
10
56
+460.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
575 MHz
1156 MHz
Boost Clock
625 MHz
1471 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
4 Gbps effective
800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
8,192
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
128 bit
2048 bit
Bandwidth
64.00 GB/s
409.6 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
94.14 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
800.0 GFLOPS
10.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
50.00 GFLOPS (1:16)
659.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
21.09 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
—
210 W
TDP (W)
—
210
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
Power Connectors
—
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 5.0
GPU Name
Venus
Vega 10
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8800M)
Vega
(RX Vega)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
1,500 million
12,500 million
Die Size
123 mm²
495 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
12.2M / mm²
25.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
—
Dual-slot
Length
—
280 mm
11 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
—
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
399 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
Polaris
Successor
Gem System
Navi