AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (2520MHz vs 1471MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1010GB/s vs 409.6GB/s)

12800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 +683%

82.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56

6873

GeForce RTX 4090 +431%

36541

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

30

GeForce RTX 4090 +516%

185

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

57

GeForce RTX 4090 +391%

280

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

87

GeForce RTX 4090 +249%

304

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

52

GeForce RTX 4090 +257%

186

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

93

GeForce RTX 4090 +118%

203

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

125

GeForce RTX 4090 +70%

213

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

46

GeForce RTX 4090 +263%

167

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

91

GeForce RTX 4090 +103%

185

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

GeForce RTX 4090 +69%

186

Radeon RX Vega 56

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GeForce RTX 4090

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Sep 2022

Vega

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6X

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

1010GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

128

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

16384

224

TMUs

512

64

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

128

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

72 MB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

AD102

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

609 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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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