Radeon Pro Vega 16 vs Vega 6 Mobile
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 456 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 11.81 |
| Architecture | GCN 5.0 (2017−2020) | GCN 5.0 (2017−2020) |
| GPU code name | Raven-M | Vega 12 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Mobile workstation |
| Release date | 8 January 2018 (8 years ago) | 14 November 2018 (7 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | 1024 |
| Core clock speed | 300 MHz | 815 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1101 MHz | 1190 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 4,940 million | no data |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 75 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 26.42 | 76.16 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.8456 TFLOPS | 2.437 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 8 | 32 |
| TMUs | 24 | 64 |
| L1 Cache | no data | 256 KB |
| L2 Cache | no data | 1024 KB |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | no data | large |
| Interface | IGP | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | System Shared | HBM2 |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | 4 GB |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | 1024 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | 1200 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 307.2 GB/s |
| Shared memory | + | - |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | Portable Device Dependent | No outputs |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (12_1) |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | 6.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2.131 |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 8 January 2018 | 14 November 2018 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 75 Watt |
Vega 6 Mobile has 400% lower power consumption.
Pro Vega 16, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months.
We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega 6 Mobile and Radeon Pro Vega 16. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Radeon Vega 6 Mobile is a notebook graphics card while Radeon Pro Vega 16 is a mobile workstation one.
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