AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM 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 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

3424 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +5170%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

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Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Dec 2013

Vega

Generation

Volcanic 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

667 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

64bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

2

3584

Shading Units

160

224

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Caicos

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

19W

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

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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