Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling vs Radeon R9 295X2

Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
Memory: 8192Mb HBM2DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Aug 2017
Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
Radeon R9 295X2
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Apr 2014
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid CoolingRadeon R9 295X2
GPU NameVega 10 (Vega 10 XTX)vsVesuvius (Vesuvius XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size484 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors12,500 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders4096vs2816
Compute Units64vs44
Core clock1406 MHzvs1018 MHz
ROPs64vs64
TMUs256vs176

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid CoolingRadeon R9 295X2
Memory TypeHBM2vsGDDR5
Bus Width2048 bitvs512 bit x2
Memory Speed945 MHz
1890 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid CoolingRadeon R9 295X2
TDP345 wattsvs500 watts
Release Date8 Aug 2017vs29 Apr 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
    107.30 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    130.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
    429.30 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    358.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
    483.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    640.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
    13738.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    11466.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better