Quadro2 Pro vs Radeon Pro Vega 56

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking171not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation44.78no data
Power efficiency10.54no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameVega 10NV15 A4
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date14 August 2017 (7 years ago)22 March 2001 (23 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 cores3584no data
Core clock speed1138 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speed1250 MHzno data
Number of transistors12,500 million25 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)210 Wattno data
Texture fill rate280.00.8
Floating-point processing power8.96 TFLOPSno data
ROPs644
TMUs2244

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 x16AGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeHBM2DDR
Maximum RAM amount8 GB64 MB
Memory bus width2048 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed786 MHz250 MHz
Memory bandwidth402.4 GB/s8 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)7.0
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.61.2
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.1.125N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Pro Vega 56 12353
+1235200%
Quadro2 Pro 1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2017 22 March 2001
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 180 nm

Pro Vega 56 has an age advantage of 16 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro Vega 56 and Quadro2 Pro. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro Vega 56 is a mobile workstation card while Quadro2 Pro is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56
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