AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo vs AMD Radeon E8870

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo and AMD Radeon E8870 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 57% higher core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 9172.9x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 48 GTexel / s
  • 10.7x more pipelines: 8192 vs 768
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 64 GB vs 4 GB
  • 3.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 14208 vs 4620
  • 3.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 14208 vs 4620
  • Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 917 vs 708
  • 4.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15977 vs 3368
Specifications (specs)
Launch date Dec 2019 vs 29 September 2015
Core clock speed 1574 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s vs 48 GTexel / s
Pipelines 8192 vs 768
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 64 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14208 vs 4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14208 vs 4620
PassMark - G2D Mark 917 vs 708
PassMark - G3D Mark 15977 vs 3368

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8870

  • 6.3x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 475 Watt
  • 3.7x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1612 MHz
  • Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5030 vs 3713
  • Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5030 vs 3713
  • 5.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 18191 vs 3359
  • 5.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 18191 vs 3359
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 475 Watt
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 1612 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5030 vs 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5030 vs 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 18191 vs 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 18191 vs 3359

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
GPU 2: AMD Radeon E8870

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14208
4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14208
4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3713
5030
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3713
5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
18191
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
18191
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
917
708
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15977
3368
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo AMD Radeon E8870
Geekbench - OpenCL 98432
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14208 4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14208 4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713 5030
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713 5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 18191
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 18191
PassMark - G2D Mark 917 708
PassMark - G3D Mark 15977 3368
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 36.948
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 874.689
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.11

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo AMD Radeon E8870

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 2.0
Code name Vega 20 Saturn
Launch date Dec 2019 29 September 2015
Place in performance rating 161 341
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1720 MHz
Compute units 64
Core clock speed 1574 MHz 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 880.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 28.18 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 14.09 TFLOPS
Pipelines 8192 768
Pixel fill rate 110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s 48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 475 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million 2,080 million
Floating-point performance 1,536 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None None
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 64 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 825.3 GB/s 96 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1612 MHz 6000 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)