AMD Radeon Pro Vega II vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II and AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 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).

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 66% higher core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 950 MHz
Around 72% higher boost clock speed: 1720 MHz vs 1000 MHz
206.9x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 2x 128.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
5.3x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 658
3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15475 vs 5214

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	Dec 2019 vs 24 April 2013
Core clock speed	1574 MHz vs 950 MHz
Boost clock speed	1720 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	440.3 GTexel/s vs 2x 128.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	32 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	768 vs 658
PassMark - G3D Mark	15475 vs 5214

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Around 27% lower typical power consumption: 375 Watt vs 475 Watt
3.7x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1612 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	375 Watt vs 475 Watt
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 1612 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

768

658

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

15475

5214

Name	AMD Radeon Pro Vega II	AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL	99542
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	16149
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	16149
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3100
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2813
PassMark - G2D Mark	768	658
PassMark - G3D Mark	15475	5214
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		44.481
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1984.655
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		8.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		125.504
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		470.237

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro Vega II	AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	GCN 1.0
Code name	Vega 20	Malta
Launch date	Dec 2019	24 April 2013
Place in performance rating	166	320
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$999
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1720 MHz	1000 MHz
Compute units	64
Core clock speed	1574 MHz	950 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	4096	2x 2048
Pixel fill rate	110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	440.3 GTexel/s	2x 128.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	475 Watt	375 Watt
Transistor count	13230 million	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		2x 4,096 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None
Width	Dual-slot
Length		307 mm
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	32 GB	2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth	825.3 GB/s	2x 288.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1612 MHz	6000 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)