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 54.55 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.
General info
Of Radeon RX Vega 56's architecture, market type and release date.
Value for money (0-100)
52.16
Architecture
GCN 5.0
Code name
Vega 10
Type
Desktop
Release date
14 August 2017
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.
Transistor count
12,500 million
of 21100
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
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
of 14000
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
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
54.55
Passmark
11656
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon RX Vega 56. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)
28.5 Mh/s
Game benchmarks
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.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon RX Vega 56 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon RX Vega 56 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which is slower by 2% and lower by 2 positions in our rating.