AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

AMD Radeon RX 560X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1471MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +303%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Apr 2018

Vega

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

16

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

224

TMUs

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

3 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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