AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48: specs and benchmarks

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Pro Vega 48
Radeon Pro Vega 48
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  • Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
  • Core clock speed 1200 MHz
  • Max video memory 8 GB
  • Memory type HBM2
  • Memory clock speed 1572 MHz
  • Maximum resolution
Year of release 2019
Performance 28.80

Summary

AMD started Radeon Pro Vega 48 sales 19 March 2019. This is a GCN 5.0 architecture desktop card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 8 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 1.57 GHz are supplied, and together with 2048 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 402.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated video card.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at

28.80%

of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Radeon Pro Vega 48: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking143
Value for money14.48
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameVega 10
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date19 March 2019 (4 years old)
Current price$671 of 158889 (A100 PCIe)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Radeon Pro Vega 48's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Pro Vega 48's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3072of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed1200 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed1300 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors12,500 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Texture fill rate249.6of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Pro Vega 48 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
WidthIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNone

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Pro Vega 48: 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 amount8 GBof 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width2048 Bitof 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1572 MHzof 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth402.4 GB/sof 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Pro Vega 48. 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 48, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.1.125

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon Pro Vega 48. 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 48 28.80

Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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: 24%

Pro Vega 48 11352

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 48 51123

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 48 56184

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon Pro Vega 48 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.

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon Pro Vega 48 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Pro Vega 48 is Quadro P4000, which is faster by 2% and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

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