AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon Pro Vega 56 sales 14 August 2017 at a recommended price of $399. This is high-end Vega architecture desktop card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 8 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 786 GHz are supplied, and together with 2048 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 402.4 GB / s.
Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 210 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 57.46 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.
General info
Of Radeon Pro Vega 56's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
Vega
Code name
Vega 10
Type
Workstation
Release date
14 August 2017
Technical specs
Radeon Pro Vega 56's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Pro Vega 56's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Transistor count
12,500 million
of 21100
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon Pro Vega 56's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Length
267 mm
Supplementary power connectors
None
Memory specs
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Pro Vega 56: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
HBM2
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
of 32
Memory clock speed
786 MHz
of 14000
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Pro Vega 56.
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
API support
APIs supported by Radeon Pro Vega 56, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12_1
OpenGL
4.6
Video card benchmarks performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon Pro Vega 56. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
59.16
3DMark Fire Strike Score
15302
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
17797
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
25589
Passmark
11897
Game benchmarks (in FPS)
Let's see how good Radeon Pro Vega 56 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.
Overall gaming performance
0.77
Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net
Assassin´s Creed Origins (2017)
medium / 1080p
70
high / 1080p
65
ultra / 1080p
57
4k / 2160p
33
Ghost Recon Wildlands (2017)
medium / 1080p
82
high / 1080p
76
ultra / 1080p
45
4k / 2160p
35
Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016)
high / 1080p
94
ultra / 1080p
75
4k / 2160p
39
Rainbow Six Siege (2015)
high / 1080p
199
ultra / 1080p
136
4k / 2160p
70
The Witcher 3 (2015)
high / 1080p
116
ultra / 1080p
64
4k / 2160p
42
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon Pro Vega 56 from NVIDIA is Quadro P4000, which is slower by 2% and lower by 1 position in our rating.
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