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. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 210 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 62.63 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Benchmarks Gaming NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon Pro Vega 56's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

Architecture

Vega

Code name

Vega 10

Type

Workstation

Release date

14 August 2017

Launch price (MSRP)

$399

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

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.

Pipelines

3584

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Core clock speed

1247 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

12,500 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 12

Power consumption (TDP)

210 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

302.4

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

9,677 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

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

2x 8-pin

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 bus width

2048 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

786 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp)

Memory bandwidth

402.4 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

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

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

62.14

3DMark Fire Strike Score

15302.00

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

17797.00

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

25589.00

Passmark

11959

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

0.48

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

Assassin´s Creed Origins (2017)

medium / 1080p

70.00

high / 1080p

65.00

ultra / 1080p

57.00

4k / 2160p

33.00

Ghost Recon Wildlands (2017)

medium / 1080p

81.70

high / 1080p

76.00

ultra / 1080p

45.10

4k / 2160p

34.70

Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016)

high / 1080p

94.00

ultra / 1080p

74.80

4k / 2160p

39.30

Dota 2 (2015)

medium / 768p

112.00

high / 1080p

107.40

ultra / 1080p

102.30

4k / 2160p

95.80

Rainbow Six Siege (2015)

high / 1080p

198.70

ultra / 1080p

135.70

4k / 2160p

70.20

The Witcher 3 (2015)

high / 1080p

115.70

ultra / 1080p

63.90

4k / 2160p

41.60

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

109.74 %

AMD Radeon PRO WX 9100

100 %

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon Pro Vega 56 from NVIDIA is Quadro P5000, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our rating.