AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

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

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 +120%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jan 2025

Vega

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR7

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

4608

224

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GB206

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

GB206

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

0 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

Unknown

495 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

210W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

9.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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