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AMD Radeon Pro 555X

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AMD Radeon Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

GPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of AMD Radeon Pro 555X and AMD Radeon Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) video cards based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

AMD Radeon Pro 555X

Larger Memory Size: 4GB (4GB vs System Shared)
Higher Bandwidth: 94.08 GB/s (94.08 GB/s vs Up to 38.4 GB/s)
More Shading Units: 768 (768 vs 512)
Newer Launch Date: July 2018 (July 2018 vs October 2017)

Basic

AMD

Label Name

AMD

July 2018

Launch Date

October 2017

Mobile

Platform

Integrated

Former Codename

Raven Ridge / Picasso

Radeon Pro 555X

Model Name

Radeon Vega 8 Graphics

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Vega

Base Clock

300 MHz

Boost Clock

1100-1200 MHz

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

IGP

3,000 million

Transistors

Compute Units

TMUs

Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm / 12 nm

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Vega (GCN 5.0)

Memory Specifications

4GB

Memory Size

System Shared

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.

Up to 128-bit

1470MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz (DDR4-2400)

94.08 GB/s

Bandwidth

Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.

Up to 38.4 GB/s

Display and Media

AMD FreeSync

Yes

No outputs

Outputs

Theoretical Performance

14.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.

43.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.

1393 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.

87.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

1.365 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

1.2288 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

768

Shading Units

The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.

512

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

1024KB

L2 Cache

75W

TDP

1.2

Vulkan Version

Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.

2.1

OpenCL Version

4.6

OpenGL

12 (12_0)

DirectX

DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_1)

None

Power Connectors

ROPs

The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.

6.4

Shader Model