AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 vs AMD Radeon R7 A265

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 and AMD Radeon R7 A265 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 44% higher boost clock speed: 1190 MHz vs 825 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 5.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5040 vs 994
  • Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 559 vs 468
  • 3.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26669 vs 6925
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 November 2018 vs 9 January 2014
Boost clock speed 1190 MHz vs 825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed 2400 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5040 vs 994
PassMark - G2D Mark 559 vs 468
Geekbench - OpenCL 26669 vs 6925

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 A265

  • 2.4x more core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 300 MHz
Core clock speed 725 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 A265

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5040
994
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
559
468
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
26669
6925
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 AMD Radeon R7 A265
PassMark - G3D Mark 5040 994
PassMark - G2D Mark 559 468
Geekbench - OpenCL 26669 6925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8311
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1842
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1663
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8311
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1842
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1663
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 AMD Radeon R7 A265

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Vega 12 Opal
Launch date 14 November 2018 9 January 2014
Place in performance rating 483 484
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1190 MHz 825 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt
Floating-point performance 633.6 gflops
Pipelines 384
Texture fill rate 19.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1,040 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Memory clock speed 2400 MHz 1800 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory type DDR3