AMD Radeon Pro Vega II vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II and AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 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 - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 57% higher core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 203.8x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 22% lower typical power consumption: 475 Watt vs 580 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 2x 8 GB
Launch date Dec 2019 vs 3 September 2015
Core clock speed 1574 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s vs 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 475 Watt vs 580 Watt
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 2x 8 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 4096
  • 3.3x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 1612 MHz
Pipelines 2x 2560 vs 4096
Memory clock speed 5400 MHz vs 1612 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega II AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
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
PassMark - G3D Mark 15475
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.128

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 2.0
Code name Vega 20 Grenada
Launch date Dec 2019 3 September 2015
Place in performance rating 166 247
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $1,399

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 4096 2x 2560
Pixel fill rate 110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 475 Watt 580 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million 6,200 million
Floating-point performance 2x 5,120 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 4x 8-pin
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 32 GB 2x 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 825.3 GB/s 2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 1612 MHz 5400 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5

Technologies

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