Radeon RX 5600 OEM vs Vega 8 Embedded

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	175
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	14.50
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name	Raven	Navi 10
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	19 April 2018 (6 years ago)	21 January 2020 (4 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 cores	512	2048
Core clock speed	300 MHz	1130 MHz
Boost clock speed	1101 MHz	1560 MHz
Number of transistors	4,940 million	10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	150 Watt
Texture fill rate	35.23	199.7
Floating-point processing power	1.127 TFLOPS	6.39 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	64
TMUs	32	128

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).

Interface	IGP	PCIe 4.0 x16
Width	IGP	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 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 type	System Shared	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	6 GB
Memory bus width	System Shared	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	288.0 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 Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	19 April 2018	21 January 2020
Chip lithography	14 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	150 Watt

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