AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon HD 6530

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

AMD Radeon HD 6530

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530 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 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

3184 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6530 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +1926%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530

0.52 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

Radeon HD 6530

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

May 2011

Vega

Generation

Northern Islands

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

600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

5

-

3584

Shading Units

400

224

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

210W

TDP

39W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Redwood

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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