AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo and AMD Radeon R9 390X 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 64% higher boost clock speed: 1720 MHz vs 1050 MHz
  • 2382.6x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 184.8 GTexel / s
  • 2.9x more pipelines: 8192 vs 2816
  • 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 54% higher memory clock speed: 1612 MHz vs 1050 MHz
  • Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 14208 vs 11675
  • Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 14208 vs 11675
  • Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 917 vs 818
  • Around 69% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15977 vs 9433
Specifications (specs)
Launch date Dec 2019 vs 18 June 2015
Boost clock speed 1720 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s vs 184.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 8192 vs 2816
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 64 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 1612 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14208 vs 11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14208 vs 11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713 vs 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713 vs 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 vs 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 vs 3350
PassMark - G2D Mark 917 vs 818
PassMark - G3D Mark 15977 vs 9433

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390X

  • 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 390X

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14208
11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14208
11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3713
3706
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3713
3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
3350
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
917
818
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15977
9433
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo AMD Radeon R9 390X
Geekbench - OpenCL 98389
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14208 11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14208 11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 3350
PassMark - G2D Mark 917 818
PassMark - G3D Mark 15977 9433
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 114.288
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2911.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 10.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 118.411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 683.568
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4242

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo AMD Radeon R9 390X

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 2.0
Code name Vega 20 Grenada
Launch date Dec 2019 18 June 2015
Place in performance rating 159 279
Type Laptop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $429

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1720 MHz 1050 MHz
Compute units 64 44
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 2816
Pixel fill rate 110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s 184.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 475 Watt 275 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million 6,200 million
Floating-point performance 5,914 gflops
Stream Processors 2816

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 1050 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

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