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 GCN 5.0 architecture desktop card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 8 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 1.57 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 62.10 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile.
General info
Of Radeon Pro Vega 56's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
GCN 5.0
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
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
of 7
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
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
Memory clock speed
1572 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
12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
Benchmark 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
62.10
3DMark Fire Strike Score
15302
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
17797
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
25589
Passmark
11950
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon Pro Vega 56 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
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 RTX 5000, which is faster by 5% and higher by 6 positions in our rating.
