AMD Radeon Pro Vega II vs AMD Radeon VII

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II and AMD Radeon VII 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

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
  • Around 12% higher core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • 1018.6x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 432.24 GT/s
  • Around 7% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 3840
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 16 GB
  • Around 11% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 99542 vs 89406
  • Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 16149 vs 11724
  • Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 16149 vs 11724
Specifications (specs)
Launch date Dec 2019 vs 7 February 2019
Core clock speed 1574 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s vs 432.24 GT/s
Pipelines 4096 vs 3840
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 16 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 99542 vs 89406
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16149 vs 11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16149 vs 11724

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon VII

  • Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1750 MHz vs 1720 MHz
  • Around 58% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 475 Watt
  • Around 24% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1612 MHz
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3717 vs 3100
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3717 vs 3100
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3360 vs 2813
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3360 vs 2813
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 786 vs 768
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 16690 vs 15475
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1750 MHz vs 1720 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt vs 475 Watt
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1612 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 vs 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 vs 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 vs 2813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 vs 2813
PassMark - G2D Mark 786 vs 768
PassMark - G3D Mark 16690 vs 15475

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
GPU 2: AMD Radeon VII

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
99542
89406
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
16149
11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
16149
11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3100
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3100
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2813
3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2813
3360
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
768
786
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15475
16690
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega II AMD Radeon VII
Geekbench - OpenCL 99542 89406
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16149 11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16149 11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3100 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3100 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2813 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2813 3360
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 786
PassMark - G3D Mark 15475 16690
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4659.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 499.927
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 9292

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II AMD Radeon VII

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 5.1
Code name Vega 20 Vega 20
Launch date Dec 2019 7 February 2019
Place in performance rating 166 214
Type Laptop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon 2nd generation Vega
GCN generation 5th Gen
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Price now $699.99
Value for money (0-100) 32.74

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1720 MHz 1750 MHz
Compute units 64 60
Core clock speed 1574 MHz 1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 880.6 GFLOPS (1:16) 3.46 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 28.18 TFLOPS (2:1) 27.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 14.09 TFLOPS 13.8 TFLOPs
Pipelines 4096 3840
Pixel fill rate 110.1 GPixel/s 115.26 GP/s
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s 432.24 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 475 Watt 300 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million 13,230 million
Stream Processors 3840

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt 750 W
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot
Length 305 mm

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 825.3 GB/s 1024 GB/s
Memory bus width 4096 bit 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed 1612 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type HBM2 HBM2

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore