AMD Radeon RX Vega 56: specs and benchmarks

AMD started Radeon RX 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 gamers. 8 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 800 GHz are supplied, and together with 409.6 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 409.6 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-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 53.41 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090.

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

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.

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).

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.

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX Vega 56. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

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

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

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

Let's see how good Radeon RX 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.