AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

3344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (210W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +1594%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jun 2008

Vega

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

512bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

3584

Shading Units

240

224

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

236W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GT200

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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