AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 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 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 210W)

Score

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Apr 2006

Vega

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

128MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

-

224

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

210W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

NV43

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

110 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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