AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 45% higher boost clock speed: 1475 MHz vs 1018 MHz
173.3x more texture fill rate: 377.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 500 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 948 vs 768
Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 14631 vs 8621

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 June 2017 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	1475 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Texture fill rate	377.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	948 vs 768
PassMark - G3D Mark	14631 vs 8621

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Around 38% higher pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 4096
Around 59% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 4096
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

948

768

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

14631

8621

Name	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	13123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	13123
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
Geekbench - OpenCL	75438
PassMark - G2D Mark	948	768
PassMark - G3D Mark	14631	8621
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Vega 10	Vesuvius
Launch date	23 June 2017	29 April 2014
Place in performance rating	172	174
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,499
Price now		$1,099.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		11.14
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1475 MHz	1018 MHz
Compute units	64
Core clock speed	1250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	755.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	24.17 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	12.08 TFLOPS
Pipelines	4096	2x 2816
Pixel fill rate	94.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	377.6 GTexel/s	2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	12500 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,733 gflops
Stream Processors		5632
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2 x 8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
Length		307 mm
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	402.4 GB/s	640 GB/s
Memory bus width	2048 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)	1250 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX