AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo vs AMD Radeon R9 390

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo and AMD Radeon R9 390 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 72% higher boost clock speed: 1720 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 2751.9x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 160.0 GTexel / s
  • 3.2x more pipelines: 8192 vs 2560
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 64 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 61% higher memory clock speed: 1612 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 98389 vs 44112
  • Around 36% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 14208 vs 10445
  • Around 36% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 14208 vs 10445
  • Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 917 vs 800
  • Around 79% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15977 vs 8936
Specifications (specs)
Launch date Dec 2019 vs 18 June 2015
Boost clock speed 1720 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s vs 160.0 GTexel / s
Pipelines 8192 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 64 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 1612 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 98389 vs 44112
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14208 vs 10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14208 vs 10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713 vs 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713 vs 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 vs 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 vs 3353
PassMark - G2D Mark 917 vs 800
PassMark - G3D Mark 15977 vs 8936

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390

  • Around 73% lower typical power consumption: 275 Watt vs 475 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 275 Watt vs 475 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
98389
44112
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14208
10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14208
10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3713
3708
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3713
3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
3353
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
917
800
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15977
8936
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo AMD Radeon R9 390
Geekbench - OpenCL 98389 44112
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14208 10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14208 10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 3353
PassMark - G2D Mark 917 800
PassMark - G3D Mark 15977 8936
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 120.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3164.164
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 11.097
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 116.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 607.381
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3958

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo AMD Radeon R9 390

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 2.0
Code name Vega 20 Grenada
Launch date Dec 2019 18 June 2015
Place in performance rating 160 297
Type Laptop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $329

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1720 MHz 1000 MHz
Compute units 64 40
Core clock speed 1574 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 2560
Pixel fill rate 110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s 160.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 475 Watt 275 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million 6,200 million
Floating-point performance 5,120 gflops
Stream Processors 2560

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Length 275 mm

API support

DirectX 12.1 12
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan
Mantle

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 64 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 825.3 GB/s 384 GB/s
Memory bus width 4096 bit 512 bit
Memory clock speed 1612 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore