AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 52% higher boost clock speed: 1546 MHz vs 1018 MHz
  • 181.6x more texture fill rate: 395.80 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • Around 45% higher pipelines: 8192 vs 2x 2816
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 69% lower typical power consumption: 295 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • Around 51% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1250 MHz
  • Around 66% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 14274 vs 8608
  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 798 vs 759
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 August 2017 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed 1546 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Texture fill rate 395.80 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines 8192 vs 2x 2816
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 295 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 14274 vs 8608
PassMark - G2D Mark 798 vs 759

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

  • 902.8x better floating-point performance: 2x 5,733 gflops vs 12.7 TFLOPs
Floating-point performance 2x 5,733 gflops vs 12.7 TFLOPs

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
14274
8608
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
798
759
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 AMD Radeon R9 295X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 14274 8608
PassMark - G2D Mark 798 759
Geekbench - OpenCL 204168
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 195.478
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2129.009
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 14.889
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 129.271
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1328.033
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7519 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 2.0
Code name Vega 10 Vesuvius
Design Radeon RX Vega Series AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 7 August 2017 29 April 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $1,499
Place in performance rating 181 182
Price now $449.99 $1,099.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 41.07 11.14

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1546 MHz 1018 MHz
Compute units 64
Core clock speed 1247 MHz
Floating-point performance 12.7 TFLOPs 2x 5,733 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 840 GFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 26.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.4 TFLOPs
Pipelines 8192 2x 2816
Pixel fill rate 98.90 GP/s
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 4096 5632
Texture fill rate 395.80 GTexel/s 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units 256
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 295 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 12,500 million 6,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Eyefinity

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 279 mm 307 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 2 x 8-pin
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16

API support

DirectX 12 12
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 483.8 GB/s 640 GB/s
Memory bus width 2048 bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore
CrossFire
DDMA audio
HD3D
LiquidVR