AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon Pro Vega 20 sales 15 November 2018. This is a Vega architecture notebook card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 1.48 GHz are supplied, and together with 1024 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 189.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 100 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 13.67% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Radeon Pro Vega 20: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking348
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money14.41
ArchitectureVega (2017−2021)
GPU code nameVega Mobile
Market segmentMobile workstation
Release date15 November 2018 (5 years old)
Current price$360 of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Radeon Pro Vega 20's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Pro Vega 20's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1280of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed815 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed1283 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate102.6of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon Pro Vega 20's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Pro Vega 20: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeHBM2
Maximum RAM amount4 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width1024 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed1480 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth189.4 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Pro Vega 20. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

APIs supported by Radeon Pro Vega 20, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.3
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon Pro Vega 20. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Pro Vega 20 13.67

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

Pro Vega 20 5299

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Pro Vega 20 33590

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Pro Vega 20 12289

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Pro Vega 20 9044

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Pro Vega 20 62318

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

Pro Vega 20 26818

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

Pro Vega 20 278586

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Pro Vega 20 26865

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon Pro Vega 20 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD61
4K41

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 21−24

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 27−30
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 21−24
Battlefield 5 74
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 35−40
Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
Far Cry 5 40
Far Cry New Dawn 35−40
Forza Horizon 4 45−50
Hitman 3 35−40
Horizon Zero Dawn 27−30
Red Dead Redemption 2 21−24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 47
Watch Dogs: Legion 24−27

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 27−30
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 21−24
Battlefield 5 63
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 35−40
Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
Far Cry 5 37
Far Cry New Dawn 35−40
Forza Horizon 4 45−50
Hitman 3 35−40
Horizon Zero Dawn 27−30
Metro Exodus 21−24
Red Dead Redemption 2 21−24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 38
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 50
Watch Dogs: Legion 24−27

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 27−30
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 21−24
Battlefield 5 60
Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
Far Cry 5 37
Far Cry New Dawn 35−40
Forza Horizon 4 45−50
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 31
Watch Dogs: Legion 24−27

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 20−22
Hitman 3 21−24
Horizon Zero Dawn 18−20
Metro Exodus 12−14
Red Dead Redemption 2 10−11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 16−18

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 14−16
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 10−11
Battlefield 5 27−30
Cyberpunk 2077 7−8
Far Cry 5 21−24
Far Cry New Dawn 24−27
Forza Horizon 4 24−27
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14−16
Watch Dogs: Legion 8−9

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 9−10
Hitman 3 12−14
Horizon Zero Dawn 10−11
Metro Exodus 6−7
Red Dead Redemption 2 7−8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 8−9
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 8−9
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 6−7
Battlefield 5 14−16
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Far Cry 5 10−12
Far Cry New Dawn 14−16
Forza Horizon 4 18−20
Watch Dogs: Legion 5−6

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon Pro Vega 20 performance compared to nearest competitors among mobile workstation video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Pro Vega 20 is Quadro P2000 Max-Q, which is slower by 1% and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

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Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon Pro Vega 20:

Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

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