AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Polaris 22 Tahiti
GPU variant VegaM MGL XL Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)
Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Manufacturing process 14 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 5,000 million 4,313 million
Die size 208 mm² 352 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Apr 24th, 2018
Generation Vega (Vega M)
Production Active
Interface IGP

Clocks

Base clock 931 MHz 850 MHz
Boost clock 1011 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory clock 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective 1500 MHz 6 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 3 GB
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5
Memory bus width 1024 bit 384 bit
Bandwidth 179.2 GB/s 288.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1280 2048
TMUs 80 128
ROPs 32 32
Compute units 20 32
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 1024 KB 768 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 32.35 GPixel/s 32.00 GPixel/s
Texture rate 80.88 GTexel/s 128.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 2.588 TFLOPS (1:1)
FP32 (float) performance 2.588 TFLOPS 4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 161.8 GFLOPS (1:16) 1,024 GFLOPS (1:4)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width IGP Dual-slot
TDP 65 W 250 W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Board number D136 C386
Length 275 mm 10.8 inches
Width 109 mm 4.3 inches
Height 36 mm 1.4 inches
Suggested PSU 600 W
Power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 6.4 5.1

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 8th, 2013
Generation Volcanic Islands
Production End-of-life
Launch price 299 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 105 in our database
Predecessor Sea Islands
Successor Pirate Islands

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