P102-101 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking151not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation24.52no data
Power efficiency11.18no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameVega 10GP102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date14 August 2017 (7 years ago)2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores35843200
Core clock speed1156 MHz1557 MHz
Boost clock speed1471 MHz1670 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million11,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)210 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate329.5334.0
Floating-point processing power10.54 TFLOPS10.69 TFLOPS
ROPs6480
TMUs224200

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 x4
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin2x 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 typeHBM2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB10 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz2002 MHz
Memory bandwidth409.6 GB/s320.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.1.1251.3
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 10 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 210 Watt 250 Watt

RX Vega 56 has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 19% lower power consumption.

P102-101, on the other hand, has a 25% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 56 and P102-101. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 56 is a desktop card while P102-101 is a workstation one.


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