GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q vs Radeon Pro Vega 56

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking169not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10066
Cost-effectiveness evaluation44.98no data
Power efficiency10.59no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega 10GA107
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date14 August 2017 (7 years ago)17 December 2021 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores35842048
Core clock speed1138 MHz832 MHz
Boost clock speed1250 MHz1155 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)210 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate280.073.92
Floating-point processing power8.96 TFLOPS4.731 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs22464
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed786 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth402.4 GB/s96 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.1.1251.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2017 17 December 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 210 Watt 30 Watt

Pro Vega 56 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 2050 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 600% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro Vega 56 and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro Vega 56 is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56
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