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 60.76 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Benchmarks Mining NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

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 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Core clock speed

1138 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Boost Clock

1474 MHz

of 2025 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Transistor count

12,500 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

210 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

330.2

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

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 specs

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 32

Memory bus width

2048 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

409.6 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

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 benchmarks 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

60.76

Passmark

11321

Mining hashrates

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

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

28.5 Mh/s

Relative perfomance

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

139.29 %

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

100 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

99.87 %

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

97.27 %

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

96.74 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon RX Vega 56 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 1070, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our rating.