GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon RX Vega 56
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1710MHz vs 1471MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 409.6GB/s)
Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages
640 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (210W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
10070
Radeon RX Vega 56
+4%
10540
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2080
+63%
11078
Radeon RX Vega 56
6783
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 2080
+55%
5146
Radeon RX Vega 56
3310
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 2080
+53%
46
Radeon RX Vega 56
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 2080
+49%
85
Radeon RX Vega 56
57
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 2080
+45%
127
Radeon RX Vega 56
87
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 2080
+21%
63
Radeon RX Vega 56
52
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 2080
+22%
114
Radeon RX Vega 56
93
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 2080
+26%
158
Radeon RX Vega 56
125
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 2080
+130%
106
Radeon RX Vega 56
46
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 2080
+18%
108
Radeon RX Vega 56
91
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 2080
+63%
180
Radeon RX Vega 56
110
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Aug 2017
GeForce 20
Generation
Vega
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
1156 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
1471 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2
256bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
409.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
56
46
SM Count
-
2944
Shading Units
3584
184
TMUs
224
64
ROPs
64
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
94.14 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
329.5 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
21.09 TFLOPS
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.54 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
659.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
210W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
Vega 10
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
Turing
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
12 nm
Process Size
14 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
12.5 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.4