AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Lower TDP (210W vs 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1860MHz vs 1471MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 409.6GB/s)

7168 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +279%

40 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56

6873

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +221%

22082

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

30

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +250%

105

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

57

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +192%

167

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

87

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +141%

210

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

52

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +146%

128

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

93

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +116%

201

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

125

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +60%

200

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

46

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +210%

143

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

91

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +105%

187

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +105%

226

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jan 2022

Vega

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1560 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1860 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6X

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

1008GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

10752

224

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.3 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

625.0 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

40.00 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

625.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GA102

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

GA102-350-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

450W

550 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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