Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling vs Radeon R9 295X2
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling |
155 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 295X2 . |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
Supports FreeSync |
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Supports TrueAudio |
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 295X2 |
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
Supports FreeSync |
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Supports TrueAudio |
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling | | Radeon R9 295X2 | |
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GPU Name | Vega 10 (Vega 10 XTX) | vs | Vesuvius (Vesuvius XT) |
Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 484 mm² | vs | 438 mm² |
Transistors | 12,500 million | vs | 6,200 million |
Shaders | 4096 | vs | 2816 |
Compute Units | 64 | vs | 44 |
Core clock | 1406 MHz | vs | 1018 MHz |
ROPs | 64 | vs | 64 |
TMUs | 256 | vs | 176 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling | | Radeon R9 295X2 | |
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Memory Type | HBM2 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 2048 bit | vs | 512 bit x2 |
Memory Speed | 945 MHz
1890 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling | | Radeon R9 295X2 | |
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TDP | 345 watts | vs | 500 watts |
Release Date | 8 Aug 2017 | vs | 29 Apr 2014 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better