Radeon Pro Vega 64X vs GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

Place in the ranking	559	140
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	GK104	Vega 10
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Release date	8 November 2013 (10 years ago)	19 March 2019 (5 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	1536	4096
Core clock speed	771 MHz	1250 MHz
Boost clock speed	797 MHz	1468 MHz
Number of transistors	3,540 million	12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	122 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	102.0	375.8
Floating-point processing power	2.448 gflops	12.03 gflops

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).

Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	MXM Module	no data
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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	GDDR5	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB/s	512.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.1.125
CUDA	3.0	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	6.70	35.54
Recency	8 November 2013	19 March 2019
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	122 Watt	250 Watt

GTX 780M Mac Edition has 104.9% lower power consumption.

Pro Vega 64X, on the other hand, has a 430.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon Pro Vega 64X is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition is a desktop card while Radeon Pro Vega 64X is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.