Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile sales 1 June 2018. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GCN 5.0 architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is 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 card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 120 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 5.0 (2017−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Vega 10 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 1 June 2018 (5 years ago) | |
| Current price | $841 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 3584 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 1138 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1301 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 12,500 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 120 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 291.4 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
Information on Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | HBM2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 2048 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1600 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 409.6 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.125 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile is GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile.
Similar GPUs
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