GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon R9 M295X
CORE STATE
Amethyst
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 3.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
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_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R9 M295X
RX Vega 56
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
3,584
+75.0%
Shaders
2,048
3,584
+75.0%
TMUs
128
224
+75.0%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
32
56
+75.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1156 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1471 MHz
GPU Clock
723 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
8,192
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256 bit
2048 bit
Bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
409.6 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
23.14 GPixel/s
94.14 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
92.54 GTexel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.961 TFLOPS
10.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
185.1 GFLOPS (1:16)
659.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
2.961 TFLOPS (1:1)
21.09 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
250 W
210 W
TDP (W)
250
210
-16.0%
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
Power Connectors
None
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 3.0
GCN 5.0
GPU Name
Amethyst
Vega 10
Generation
Gem System
(R9 M200)
Vega
(RX Vega)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5,000 million
12,500 million
Die Size
366 mm²
495 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
13.7M / mm²
25.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
6.5
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
280 mm
11 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
399 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Solar System
Polaris
Successor
Polaris Mobile
Navi