AMD Radeon RX 560DX vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560DX

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1471MHz vs 1175MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560DX

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +400%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Aug 2017

Polaris

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

56

-

896

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

210W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Vega 10

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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