Radeon Pro Vega 48: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon Pro Vega 48 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 29.29% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
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 ranking | 191 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 5.0 (2017−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Vega 10 | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 19 March 2019 (5 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 cores | 3072 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 1200 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1300 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 12,500 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 249.6 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 7.987 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 64 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 192 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
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).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
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 type | HBM2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 2048 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 786 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 402.4 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
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 Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon Pro Vega 48, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.125 |
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Pro Vega 48 is RTX A1000 Embedded, which is faster by 1% and higher by 1 position in our ranking.
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