CMP 50HX vs Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameVega 10TU102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 June 2018 (6 years ago)24 June 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores35843584
Core clock speed1138 MHz1350 MHz
Boost clock speed1301 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate291.4296.6
Floating-point processing power9.326 TFLOPS11.07 TFLOPS
ROPs6480
TMUs224192
Tensor Coresno data448
Ray Tracing Coresno data56

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB10 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth409.6 GB/s560.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.1.1251.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2018 24 June 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 10 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 250 Watt

RX Vega 56 Mobile has 108.3% lower power consumption.

CMP 50HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 25% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile and CMP 50HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile is a notebook card while CMP 50HX is a workstation one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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