AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1471MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +80%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56 +65%

6873

Radeon RX 480

4162

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +76%

30

Radeon RX 480

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +62%

57

Radeon RX 480

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +74%

87

Radeon RX 480

50

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +152%

91

Radeon RX 480

36

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +3%

110

Radeon RX 480

106

Radeon RX Vega 56

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Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jun 2016

Vega

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

36

3584

Shading Units

2304

224

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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