AMD Radeon Pro Vega II vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 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: 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 69% higher boost clock speed: 1720 MHz vs 1018 MHz
202x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 475 Watt vs 500 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 8 GB
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 1612 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15475 vs 8621

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	Dec 2019 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	1720 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Texture fill rate	440.3 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	475 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size	32 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed	1612 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	15475 vs 8621

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Around 38% higher pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 4096

Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 4096

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

768

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

15475

8621

Name	AMD Radeon Pro Vega II	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
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	768
PassMark - G3D Mark	15475	8621
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro Vega II	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	GCN 2.0
Code name	Vega 20	Vesuvius
Launch date	Dec 2019	29 April 2014
Place in performance rating	166	174
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,499
Price now		$1,099.99
Value for money (0-100)		11.14
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1720 MHz	1018 MHz
Compute units	64
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	4096	2x 2816
Pixel fill rate	110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	440.3 GTexel/s	2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	475 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	13230 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,733 gflops
Stream Processors		5632
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort	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
Recommended system power (PSU)	850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	2 x 8-pin
Width	Dual-slot
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	32 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	825.3 GB/s	640 GB/s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1612 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX