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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 55.39 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.

General info Technical specs Memory 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 RX Vega 64)

Core clock speed

1247 MHz

of 1630 (Radeon RX Vega 64)

Transistor count

12,500 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

210 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

302.4 GTexel / s

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

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

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

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

of 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

2048 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

786 MHz

of 14000

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

OpenGL

4.6

Video card 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

55.39

3DMark Fire Strike Score

15302

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

17797

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

25589

Passmark

11834

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.

Fortnite

2018

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to Fortnite official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

minimum HD Graphics 4000

recommended GeForce GTX 660

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG)

2017

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

minimum GeForce GTX 960

recommended GeForce GTX 1060

Overwatch

2016

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to Overwatch official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

minimum Radeon HD 4850

recommended Radeon HD 7950

GTA V

2015

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to GTA V official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

minimum GeForce 9800 GT

recommended GeForce GTX 660

Rainbow Six Siege

2015

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to Rainbow Six Siege official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

minimum GeForce GTX 460

recommended GeForce GTX 670

FPS tests

Real world test results of Rainbow Six Siege on Radeon Pro Vega 56.

high / 1080p

199

ultra / 1080p

136

4k / 2160p

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

2014

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

minimum GeForce 6800

recommended GeForce 8800 GT

Dota 2

2013

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to Dota 2 official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

minimum GeForce 8600 GT

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to Counter-Strike: GO official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

recommended GeForce 6600

League of Legends

2009

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to League of Legends official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

recommended GeForce 8800 GT

Minecraft

2009

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to Minecraft official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

minimum Radeon HD 2400

recommended Radeon HD 5870

Assassin´s Creed Origins

2017

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to Assassin´s Creed Origins official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

minimum GeForce GTX 660

recommended GeForce GTX 760

FPS tests

Real world test results of Assassin´s Creed Origins on Radeon Pro Vega 56.

medium / 1080p

high / 1080p

ultra / 1080p

4k / 2160p

Ghost Recon Wildlands

2017

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to Ghost Recon Wildlands official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

minimum GeForce GTX 660

recommended GeForce GTX 1060

FPS tests

Real world test results of Ghost Recon Wildlands on Radeon Pro Vega 56.

medium / 1080p

high / 1080p

ultra / 1080p

4k / 2160p

Rise of the Tomb Raider

2016

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to Rise of the Tomb Raider official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

minimum GeForce GTX 650

recommended GeForce GTX 970

FPS tests

Real world test results of Rise of the Tomb Raider on Radeon Pro Vega 56.

high / 1080p

ultra / 1080p

4k / 2160p

The Witcher 3

2015

Official system requirements

Radeon Pro Vega 56 performance compared to The Witcher 3 official system requirements.

Pro Vega 56

minimum GeForce GTX 660

recommended GeForce GTX 770

FPS tests

Real world test results of The Witcher 3 on Radeon Pro Vega 56.

high / 1080p

116

ultra / 1080p

4k / 2160p

Relative perfomance

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

100 %

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

93.05 %

AMD Radeon Pro SSG

91.59 %

AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200

88.1 %

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon Pro Vega 56 from NVIDIA is Quadro GV100, which is faster by 7% and higher by 6 positions in our rating.