Radeon Pro Vega 48: specs and benchmarks

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Radeon Pro Vega 48 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 25.48% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

AMD started Radeon Pro Vega 48 sales 19 March 2019. This is a GCN 5.0 architecture notebook card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 8 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 0.79 GHz are supplied, and together with 2048 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 402.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking239
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameVega 10
Market segmentMobile workstation
Release date19 March 2019 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1200 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1300 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors12,500 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate249.6of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power7.987 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs64of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs192of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache768 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache4 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & 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
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width2048 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed786 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth402.4 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

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 and SDK 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 score.

Pro Vega 48
25.48

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

Pro Vega 48 11269
Samples: 17

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.

Pro Vega 48 53570

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.

Pro Vega 48 57897

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.

Closest competitors

Radeon Pro Vega 48's performance relative to its closest rivals among mobile workstation graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Pro Vega 48 is RTX A1000 Embedded, which is faster by 2% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

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