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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 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 gamers. 8 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 1.6 GHz are supplied, and together with 2048 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 409.6 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 65.71 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

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General info

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

Place in performance rating

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Code name

Vega 10

Type

Desktop

Release date

14 August 2017

Launch price (MSRP)

$399

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Radeon RX 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 RX Vega 56's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

3584

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

1138 MHz

of 1620 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Boost Clock

1474 MHz

of 1815 (Quadro RTX 5000)

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

330.2 GTexel / s

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

Floating-point performance

10,566 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon RX 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

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 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 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

409.6 GB / s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX Vega 56.

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by Radeon RX Vega 56, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12.0 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

Video card benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon RX Vega 56. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

65.71

Passmark

11440

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon RX Vega 56. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

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

Radeon RX Vega 56

minimum GeForce 8600 GT

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Official system requirements

107.49 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega

104.31 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

100 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

97.31 %

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

96.38 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

93.68 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon RX Vega 56 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, which is slower by 4% and lower by 2 positions in our rating.