AMD Radeon Pro VII vs AMD Radeon RX Vega

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro VII and AMD Radeon RX Vega videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 40% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • Around 42% higher boost clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 1328.1x more texture fill rate: 408 GTexel/s vs 307.2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 33% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 90018 vs 67658
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 May 2020 vs 1 April 2017
Core clock speed 1400 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Boost clock speed 1700 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Texture fill rate 408 GTexel/s vs 307.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 90018 vs 67658

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega

  • Around 7% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 3840
  • Around 11% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Pipelines 4096 vs 3840
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro VII
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
90018
67658
Name AMD Radeon Pro VII AMD Radeon RX Vega
Geekbench - OpenCL 90018 67658
PassMark - G3D Mark 12297
PassMark - G2D Mark 882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 205.049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4007.96
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 18.022
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 215.8
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1292.989
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2391
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8455
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2391
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8455

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro VII AMD Radeon RX Vega

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 1.3
Code name Vega 20 Greenland
Launch date 13 May 2020 1 April 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $1899 $599.99
Place in performance rating 189 239
Type Desktop Desktop
Price now $409.99
Value for money (0-100) 38.94

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1700 MHz 1200 MHz
Compute units 60
Core clock speed 1400 MHz 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.06 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 4096
Pixel fill rate 108.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 408 GTexel/s 307.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 225 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million
Floating-point performance 9,830 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 6x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 305 mm (12 inches) 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width 111 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12.1
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 1024 GB/s 512 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 bit 2048 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective) 2000 MHz
Memory type HBM2 HBM2