AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 240 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 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 89% (1471MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +1659%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Nov 2013

Vega

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

64bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

6

-

3584

Shading Units

384

224

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Oland

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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